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Distance-time graph inquiry

This sequence of lessons explores how well students understand the relationship between distance and time, through interpreting distance and time graphs. This is achieved by figuring out the displacement and acceleration of an object, determining speed and velocity. The lessons are accompanied by a PowerPoint and a student prompt sheet.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation, Questioning, Worked examples
Keywords	distance, time, speed, veloctiy, displacement, acceleration, negative and positive acceleration
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	English, Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Data representation and interpretation, Integers, Time, Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7A04 Describe relationships between variables represented in graphs of functions from authentic data
Numeracy progression	Measuring time (P7) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7) Interpreting and representing data (P6)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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