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Lesson Plan
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Horatio's Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
View a PBS video entitled Horatio's Drive and explore Horatio's Ratios. Collaborative learners form groups to use Mapquest to determine distances covered. They generate the mathematical averages, ratios, and rates in order to calculate...
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Lesson Plan
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American Journeys: Right Place, Right Time

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders measure distances on a map using string and a ruler. They complete mathematical word problems about measurement.
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Activity
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Bus and Car

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Would you go by bus or car on the autobahn? Here, learners use distance, time, and average speeds to investigate the fastest way to get from Berlin to Frankfort for a soccer game. It might be fun to start with a discussion or short video...
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Speed, Distance and Time

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students are introduced to the concept of speed and the difference between average and instantaneous speed. They work as a class to solve a variety of word problems to calculate average speeds without a calculator. The students are then...
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He Came Out Of Nowhere!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students calculate the traveled speed and distance of a robot. In this geometry lesson plan, students use the distance formula to manipulate and use to solve for the required variable. They calculate answers where two variables are missing.
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Worksheet 2: Graphs, Functions and Derivatives

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students answer 7 questions having to do with graphing derivatives of functions, rectilinear motion, speed and distance.
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Worksheet
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Formula Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students name what each of the units listed represent whether it is distance, time, speed, or acceleration. Then they solve each of the word problems that follow, showing all of their work.
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Using Bar Models to Solve Rate Problems

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Pupils visualize distance-rate-time problems by using bar models. The lesson presents examples of four different types of rate problems and shows how they can be solved using bar models and equations. Each example is followed by a...
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Dinner Date

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Determine just how far to run before dinner. The short assessment asks pupils to determine the distance a person can jog in the time left before dinner. To answer the question, scholars determine the distance if the person jogs one way...
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Journey

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Drive home math concepts with an engaging task. Learners follow a verbal description to fill in a table and create a distance-time graph representing a car journey. They then answer questions by interpreting the graph.
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Worksheet
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Speed Trails

For Students 9th - 11th
For this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, learners conduct an experiment with toy cars in order to calculate and compare average, instantaneous, and constant speed.  The two page worksheet contains three questions.  Answers are not...
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Lesson Plan
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Speed of a Forest Stream

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study stream speed.  For this stream speed lesson students complete an activity and formulate an opinion and study its effects.
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Worksheet
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Earth's Magnetic Pole

For Students 8th - 11th
In this Earth's magnetic pole learning exercise, students use a diagram showing the changes in the magnetic pole of the Earth over time. Students use the given scale of the changes to answer 6 questions about the average speed of the...
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Worksheet
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Details from an Exploding Star

For Students 8th - 10th
In this nebula worksheet, students read about the Crab Nebula and calculate the average speed of the expanding gas. They determine the size of the smallest clumps of gas and they draw the diameter of the solar system to scale.
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Worksheet
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Hubble Spies Colliding Asteroids!

For Students 9th - 11th
In this colliding asteroids instructional activity, students are given the equation to determine the collision time for asteroids. Students use this equation to solve 4 problems including finding the area of a cross-section through the...
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Worksheet
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The Dawn Mission: Ion Rockets and Spiral Orbits

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this ion rocket and orbits worksheet, students read about the spiral orbit the Dawn spacecraft took due to its ion rocket motor. Students solve 3 problems including finding the path taken by the spacecraft, determining the total path...
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Worksheet
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Road Trip to Pennsylvania

For Students 8th - 10th
In this road trip problem, students examine information about road trip and determine the constant rate necessary to travel a predetermined distance.   This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem.  The answer is provided.
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Lesson Plan
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Prey or Pray? Could YOU Escape a Cheetah?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders estimate the size of an adult cheetah by research and measurement of a picture. They determine the approximate distance and speed of the cheetah from a filmed chase and compare that to their own running speed.
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Lesson Plan
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Wave Math

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify the different factors affecting the size and shape of ocean waves. In this math lesson, students calculate wave speed and wavelength given a mathematical formula.
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Lesson Plan
Mathalicious

The Fall of Javert

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Falling off a bridge might not sound like your idea of a good math problem, but incorporating the final scene of Les Misérables is sure to spark interest. The goal is to use the time Javert fell off the bridge to determine how high he...
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Worksheet
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Calculating Rates

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students determine the rate or time using the appropriate units.    The one page worksheet contains a combination of six multiple choice and free response questions.  Answers are included.
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Lesson Plan
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Around the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars find the circumference of various round objects.  In this finding the circumference of various round objects lesson, students find the circumference of the Earth.  Young scholars find the circumference of trees, tires, and...
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Size Per Unit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how to find the average and the concept of a per unit quantity and its applications. They also make connections of using population density and how to find the speed with its relating formula. This is bringing...
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Worksheet
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The I-81 Problem

For Students 8th - 10th
In this problem solving worksheet, students determine the average rate of speed of a car traveling 60 miles per hour one direction and 30 miles per hour on the return trip. A detailed answer is included with the problem.