Organization: North Carolina Standard Course of Study Grade Band: Algebra I Standard Goal: The learner will perform operations with numbers and expressions to solve problems.
Activity: Students run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Forest density, wind direction, size of forest.
Activity: Run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Probability that a tree will set fire to each of its eight neighbors.