Activity Overview
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 5 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR by Linda Antinone, Sam Gough, and Jill Gough (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
Before the Activity
Students will find the distance traveled given the graph of the velocity versus time of a walker.
Have students complete Activity 5 from the EXPLORATIONS book first.
During the Activity
The attached LearningCheck™ appvar and resource files extend concepts from the activity above. These files can be sent to your class using TI-Navigator™.
After the Activity
Review student results:
As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
Re-teach concepts as necessary