April 23-25

Speed Notes and Word Problem Practice 🚗🏃‍♀️📈

📅 Notes Completed: April 23
📅 Practice Activity Completed: April 25

This week, students deepened their understanding of speed by completing guided notes and practicing solving speed word problems using real-world examples. These activities helped students apply the speed formula and recognize how speed relates to motion in everyday life.

📝 What We Covered:

🔹 Speed Notes (April 23)

Students completed a fill-in-the-blank guided notes sheet ​ to review key concepts, including:

• How to determine if something is moving (change in position relative to a reference frame)

• The definition of speed as how fast an object moves

• The speed formula:
  Speed=Distance/Time

• Units used to measure speed (e.g., meters per second, kilometers per hour, miles per hour)

• How to calculate average speed and understand constant speed

• Example problems using real-life situations, including Usain Bolt's sprint records and race car speeds .
  
  

🧠 Speed Word Problem Practice (April 25)

Students completed a set of Level 1 and Level 2 word problems ​ to apply their understanding of the speed formula:

• Level 1 Problems focused on straightforward calculations of speed, distance, or time based on short, simple scenarios (e.g., running, driving, swimming).

• Level 2 Problems involved multi-step reasoning, comparisons between different travelers, and problems where students had to create their own word problem.
  
  

Students practiced:

• Solving for missing distance, time, or speed

• Rounding answers to the nearest hundredth

• Showing all their work clearly

🔍 Skills Emphasized:

• Problem-solving with formulas

• Setting up and solving word problems

• Interpreting real-world motion situations

• Organizing work to show clear, logical steps
  
  

🌍 Why This Matters:

Learning to solve motion problems helps students connect math and science skills. Understanding speed prepares students for future lessons on acceleration, velocity, and interpreting graphs of motion.

✅ Awesome job working through real-world examples of motion! Keep practicing setting up your equations and solving carefully. 🚀✨