Would it be cruel to put the class through all the analysis only to tell them the shot was left and was not in? Being very new to WCYDWT I’m not sure of the “rules” and whether this is allowed?

I have no problem with being evil enough to do this by the way :-) but is that the old-self or the new-self talking?

We’ve spent a good part of the year finding regression equations, and I was surprised that not many students saw that as a solution process here. They were pretty on top of the fact that the motion was parabolic, and I saw lots of good work taking advantage of that symmetry (mostly with the assumption that the final ball shown is at the vertex). In two classes, we had an interesting discussion about choosing a location for the origin.

Also worth noting was how upset the classes were that I don’t know the answer… This really seemed to take the wind out of their sails, which shows me that we have a long way to go!