2ns Quarter
Performance Task 1: GALLERY WALK
SITUATIONAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING CONIC SECTIONS:
CIRCLE, PARABOLA, ELLIPSE, HYPERBOLA
1. A street with two lanes, each 10 ft wide, goes
through a semicircular tunnel with radius 12 ft. How
high is the tunnel at the edge of each lane? Round off
to 2 decimal places.
2. A piece of a broken plate was dug up in an
archaeological site. It was put on top of a grid, as
shown in figure below, with the arc of the plate
passing through 𝐴(7, 0), 𝐵(1, 4) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶(7, 2).
Find its center, and the standard equation of the
circle describing the boundary of the plate.
3. A satellite dish has a shape called a paraboloid,
where each cross-section is a parabola. Since radio
signals (parallel to the axis) will bounce off the surface of
the dish to the focus, the receiver should be placed at the
focus. How far should the receiver be from the vertex, if
the dish is 12 ft across, and 4.5 ft deep at the vertex?
4. Cable of a suspension bridge hangs in the shape of a
parabola. The towers supporting the cable are 400 ft
apart and 150 ft high. If the cable, at its lowest, is 30
ft above the bridge at its midpoint, how high is the
cable 50 ft away (horizontally) from either tower?
5. A tunnel has the shape of a semi ellipse that is 15 ft
high at the center, and 36 ft across at the base. At
most how high should a passing truck be, if it is 12 ft
wide, for it to be able to fit through the tunnel? Round
off your answer to two decimal places.
6. The orbit of a planet has the shape of an ellipse, and on
one of the foci is the star around which it revolves. The
planet is closest to the star when it is at one vertex. It is
farthest from the star when it is at the other vertex.
Suppose the closest and farthest distances of the planet
from this star, are 420 million kilometers and 580
million kilometers, respectively.
Find the equation of the ellipse, in standard form, with
center at the origin and the star at the x-axis. Assume
all units are in millions of kilometers.
INSTRUCTIONS:
➢ The group will answer all the situational problems and show their solution in a long bond paper. DEADLINE:
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➢ It will be returned right after checking their solutions. Then each group will be assigned one situational
problem.
➢ Once assigned with their respective situational problems, each group will prepare and write it in either
Manila paper or Cartolina paper for Gallery Walk Presentation.
➢ Each group of presenters will prepare to discuss the how they solve their assigned situational problem in an
organize and comprehensive way.
➢ Begin Gallery Walk: Each group of audience will ask a 3-5 set of questions for each situational problem
for clarification or comments to the presenters. The recorder is encourage to write it in a pithy bulleted
format in their big notebook.
➢ Rotate to New Station and Add Content: After a short period of time, say three to five minutes but the
exact time will depend upon the nature of the question, say "rotate." The group then rotates, clockwise, to
the next station. At the new station the group adds new comments and responds to comments left by the
previous group. To involve all group members, switch recorders at each station.
➢ Instructor Monitors Progress: Sample comprehensive questions to spur discussion, "Your group seems to
think/solve ..... about this situational problem. How would you rephrase or summarize what has been
discussed so far?" or "What similarities and differences do you see between the responses you are giving at
this station and what was summarized at the last station?"
➢ Return to Starting Point: Teams continue to review the answers already contributed by previous groups,
adding their own comments. This procedure continues until groups have visited all stations and return to the
station at which they started. Students are instructed to record their original (starting) question and to sit
down in their teams to begin the "Report Out" stage.
➢ Report Out: In the "Report Out" stage, the group synthesizes what has been written about their original
discussion question. Allow about ten minutes for the group to synthesize comments. The "reporter" chosen
earlier, summarizes the group's comments with the help of other group members and makes an oral
presentation to the class using the blackboard or on an overhead projector. The oral report should not
exceed five minutes in length. Alternatively, students can write a written report composed either
individually or as a group.
➢ Gauge for Student Understanding: During "Report Out" stage, the instructor reinforces correctly
expressed concepts and corrects for misconceptions and errors. What, for example, did students seem to
readily understand? What did they find difficult and how can I adjust my teaching to accommodate
students?
