In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad calculates the speed of each broom.

Inquiring minds want to know, how far can you go on a tank of gas? See if you can figure out this math challenge that explores rate, distance, and time. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Application...

This activity is an application of differentiation involving related rates. Students set up equations relating the variables and then differentiate them with respect to time to find the rate a distance is changing and an angle is changing.

Browse resources related to fifth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.

Browse resources related to fourth-grade math standards. Click on a topic for interactive lessons, videos, and extra practice.

In this activity, students can use the motion detector to record motion, and observe how the direction of movement, speed of travel, and the rate of change of direction and speed affect the shape of a distance-time plot.

In this lesson plan students are given a distance and time and are to determine the 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.

Students use the CBR 2 to gather distance and time data for various walking speeds. They observe the effect of change in direction and speed of motion on distance versus time graphs. Students interpret and analyze graphs, calculate slope...

The purpose of this task is for middle schoolers to translate information about a context involving constant speed into information presented in a table and to find the time it takes to travel a unit distance as well as the distance...

This activity suggests a number of investigative projects, focusing on athletics and swimming, exploring some of the trends between performances in different sports at the same time in history and in the rate of improvement of records...

A physics lab activity where students gather data from classmates running at different rates on a football field. They then share their gathered data and transfer it to a graphing program to ultimately calculate average velocity.

In this activity, students learn to solve a real-world problem comparing automobile travel in the early 1900's and travel today. They follow the route taken by Alice in 1909 from New York City to San Francisco and determine how long the...

Math activity challenges you to figure out how fast an Arctic tern can fly around the world. How long would it take to fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back?

On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains manipulatives for creating addition and subtraction problems using positive and negative numbers. There is an example problem which teachers can use to help design their own...

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to observe the effect of speeding up, slowing down, and moving at a constant rate on a Distance versus Time plot.

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...

This task models a satellite orbiting the Earth in communication with two control stations located miles apart on Earth's surface. Students determine distances between various locations and, given a rate of travel, they determine the...

Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.

[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]