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The workers in a honeybee hive fly great distances to find flowers with the nectar they need to make honey. When a bee finds a good patch of flowers, she returns to the hive and communicates the location of the flowers to the other bees. Scientific observation has shown that honeybees have an amazing method for giving directions from the hive to the flowers: they perform a lively dance! During the direction dance, a honeybee moves in a combination of squiggly curves and half circles. The squiggly lines in the dance indicate the direction of the flowers based upon the location of the sun.
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You will be asked for a conjecture for the angle the bee must travel. If you are correct, then the bee will do a dance for you. If you are off, you will be asked to try again. New problems will be generated automatically. If you want to stop the applet press CANCEL or quit the applet. If you want to do more estimation, click on Bee Dance. |
| © 2006 Applet written by S. Keller, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University |
| © 2006 Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University |
