Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Shape: Speed, Distance and Time Calculations
Test your knowledge of speed, distance, and time formulas.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Speed Distance Time Calculator
Calculate speed, distance, or time using the formula d = st, distance equals speed times time. The Speed Distance Time Calculator can solve for the unknown sdt value given two known values
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Speed
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad calculates the speed of each broom.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Calculating Speed of the Current in a River (Word Problems)
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video demonstrates how to solve a word problem where you must calculate the speed of a river current. [1:12]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Average Speed
Speed is a type of rate. Have you ever been asked to define the term speed? If so, you would probably answer, "how fast an object is moving." More specifically, speed is the distance an object travels in a given amount of time. This...
BBC
Bbc: Distance, Speed, and Time
You can pick up some valuable pointers and practice how to compute problems involving distance, speed, and time. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Average Speed
Given diagrams, data, or scenarios, students will calculate average speed using distance and time measurements.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Speed
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of speed and its SI unit, instantaneous speed and how to calculate average speed and distance or time from speed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Up to Speed
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson builds upon the familiar d=rt formula for distance to include elements of acceleration as well. The lesson is framed in the context of traffic flow theory, but makes some very...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Distance, Speed, & Time
Using these rate of speed problems practice figuring out either the distance, time or speed. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...
Other
Machine Head Software: Speed Distance Time Calculators
A collection of calculators to find the average speed, time, or distance depending on the variables given.
Other
Online Conversion
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding Speed Using Ratios
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must solve word problems involving time, speed, and distance by using a ratio in their calculations. Includes video demonstrating a...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Speed: Lesson 2
This lesson will explain what speed is, including the difference between average speed and instantaneous speed, showing how to calculate both. It will also show the common units used to represent speed. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Quick Circular Motion Calculations Challenge
This challenge is designed to help students move back and forth from different circular motion ideas. These ideas include frequency, rpm, period, angular speed, linear speed, total distance and total radians.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Formulas for Problem Solving
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Calculate distances, rates and times by using formulas
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Motion on Incline Level 1
Students must calculate the distance an object will move up an incline using Newton's Laws. Mass, angle, gravitational field and initial speed will be generated randomly.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wheeling It In!
In an open-ended design activity, students use everyday materials (milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy) to build a small-scale transportation device. They incorporate the use of a wheel and axle, and lever into their...
PBS
Pbs: A Classical and Relativistic Trip to a Black Hole
This PBS site is a classroom activity that takes a trip to a black hole. Students apply calculations on distance, velocity, acceleration, time, circular motion, density, and more.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on how to calculate average speed and distance traveled. It also explains how to convert different units of measure and provides a link to an assessment.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Get Going With Rate
Explore the concepts of rate, distance, and speed in this interactive lesson. Discover how to use formulas to solve word problems and calculate salaries. A concise lesson with excellent examples, connections to real world experiences,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Position Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.