Students learn about slope, determining slope, distance vs. time graphs through a motion-filled activity. Working in teams with calculators and CBL motion detectors, students attempt to match the provided graphs and equations with the...

This activity includes scripts that enable students to understand all types of linear motion, such as vertical motion, horizontal motion, average velocity, and sliding ladder.

This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 4 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).

Students can use a CBR 2 motion detector to measure distance and velocity. Students prepare graphs of motion and analyze them. They compare and match graphs of distance versus time and velocity versus time.

In this activity, students create a situation that produces linear behavior by stepping heel to toe and taking distance readings as each step is taken. Students then apply the properties of a linear function to develop a model for motion.

In this activity, students' will use a force sensor and a motion detector to study the relationship between the force applied to a rubber band and the distance to which it stretches. They will then model force versus strech data with a...

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to plot the position versus time graph for a swinging pendulum. They will determine the period of the motion and model the position data using a cosine function.

In this activity, students' will collect and analyze motion data in order to determine the solution to a linear system of equations. They graph two motions on a common axis and find their intersection.

Students explore conservation of linear momentum and collisions. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, center of mass motion, variable mass, and momentum. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice...

In this lesson, students make observations about the motion of a boat going up and down the river. They will solve the system of equations algebraically and graphically.

In this activity, students examine quantities that are linearly related and can be visually represented using a straight-line graph. Students collect distance versus time data using a motion detector and find a model for the...

In this activity, students' use a force sensor and a motion detector to collect force and acceleration data for an object moving up and down hanging from a spring. They use the data to test Newton's second law, and to estimate the mass...

In this activity, students take distance readings as they walk in front of a CBR. They apply the properties of a linear function to develop a model for the motion and interpret the values used in the model. Students learn to graph...

In this activity, students will create constant-speed motion plots and develop linear equations to describe them mathematically.

In this activity, Students can use a motion detector to record the position and velocity of a swinging pendulum. They will plot the data as a velocity versus position phase plot and determine an ellipse that fits it.

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to collect position data showing evenly-spaced jumps in value. They will then model this data using the greatest integer function.

In this activity, students can use the motion detector to measure their current height and obtain a mean value. They will use this and earlier data to plot a graph of height versus age. Students will identify the mathematical model that...

Students use the CBR 2 to gather distance and time data for various walking speeds. They observe the effect of change in direction and speed of motion on distance versus time graphs. Students interpret and analyze graphs, calculate slope...

In this activity, students' will record motion data for a walker and describe segments of the walker's motion using linear function. They will model the motion data using a piece-wise continuous function assembled from linear functions.

In this activity, students use a motion detector to create Distance versus Time graphs. They experiment with various Distance-Time graphs and write mathematical descriptions of motion with constant velocity.

Students explore center of mass. Some topics examined in the activities are collisions, center of mass motion, and power. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, practice problems, and exam questions. Practice problems and...

In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to record the distance versus time data for the simple motion of a walker. They will calculate velocity from this graph and compare it with the velocity graph generated by the...

This activity allows students to use real data obtained by them to model quadratic equations. students can use the TI-83 and/or TI-84 and a motion detector to collect their data. The students will then manually fit both quadratic and...

In this activity, students' use a motion detector to create straight-line, or constant-speed, distance versus time plots, and analyze the linear equation that describes the plots.