The Tortoise and the Hare

In this lesson, students make connections between an animal-racing scenario and the graphs of the distance vs. time relationship for each animal. Students also create their own graph to represent the distance vs. time relationship for a new animal: a dog. The graph must meet three conditions, including a condition in which the dog's distance is decreasing. Inspired by and with gratitude to Illustrative Mathematics and Open Up Resources. Download for free at https://openupresources.org.

By Jay Chow