The 2-Hour Marathon

THIS USED TO BE A DESMOS ACTIVITY BUT IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED In this activity, students build a model for world-record marathon times, then use this knowledge to critique a sports medicine news story, and to consider the process of mathematical modeling itself. Inspired by a New York Times article May 15, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/sports/two-hour-marathon-kenenisa-bekele.html Photo of Dennis Kipruto Kimetto from https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kipruto_Kimetto Railroad data from https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch3en/conc3en/usrail18402003.html

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