Lesson Seed
STEM Onboard a Carrier: Catapulting Aircraft & Connecting Math Concepts
​Kelly Wamser Remijan,
Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Abstract
This article connects math concepts found within middle school and high school curriculums with problems and activities inspired by the author's experience as a math educator embarking on an aircraft carrier as a Distinguished Visitor and U.S. Navy Community Ambassador. By incorporating various scenarios associated with catapulting aircraft along with a wide range of problems involving simple arithmetic operations, unit conversions, basic measurements, application of coordinates, basic geometry knowledge, and graphing of scatterplots, this paper strives to make math lessons and problems more meaningful for students.