Checking the Speedometer

by: Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

One of the primary difficulties that students experience in determining the speed of a moving object is differentiating between quantities and changes in quantities. The purpose of this probe is to examine students' use of ratios that express displacement over a time interval to determine speed rather than using position and clock readings.

Grade Levels

Elementary High School Middle School

Topics

Assessment Phenomena Physical Science Physics Three-Dimensional Learning

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/1/2010Stock # PB274X1_6

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