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.

Concepts

speed, graphs interpreting, rate of change

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as a class activity

Classroom Considerations

• Although the task indicates alignment to the 8.EE domain, there are elements of the 8.F domain in the task
• Note that the task uses 2:00 hours rather than 2:00 o'clock

Pros

• Simple context is easy to teach and learn
• Includes rubric with examples of scored student work

Cons

• Rubric uses an abbreviation, but it does not indicate what it stands for
• Time is already filled out in the table, so learners do not need to show knowledge of interpreting time intervals

Common Core

8.EE.B.5 8.EE.B.6 MP2 MP3 MP6 MP7