No need to travel ... the lesson will come to you! A well-designed lesson begins by describing the rate of change of a distance-time graph highlighting areas of constant, increasing, and decreasing speed. The video instructor then shows how to analyze the distance-time graph to answer questions about speed.

Concepts

distance, time, distance rate time problems, speed, graphing, constant rate, constant speed, rate of change

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as an introduction to linear rate of change
• Have pupils label each section of a distance-time graph describing the speed

Classroom Considerations

• Requires Internet access to view the YouTube videos

Pros

• The video shows several examples to reinforce concepts
• Provides practice problems to follow the video instruction

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 RST.6-8.7 RST.9-10.7