Shot by Evan Sellers off of the Vulcan Monument. Estimated height of shot is 130 feet, estimated distance of hoop is about 165 feet. What is the distance from the monument to the rim?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
World's Longest Basketball Shot
In geometry, we are learning about the Pythagorean Theorem and special right triangles. Students are working on a special project to find an application of one of these concepts and write a geometry problem about it. Never challenging the students to do something I wouldn't want to do myself, I have come up with the following example and video. I saw this video last summer on Winners Bracket. Not sure how far it made it, but it is pretty cool.
