Topic 4 Elaboration

Which of the following stories could be represented by this graph?

• Ms. Rice drove to a café and stopped for a cup of coffee. Then she drove to a store further away, but found out it was closed, so she drove back home.

• Mr. Lee drove to the mall to shop for an hour. Then he returned home by the same route.

• Anthony rode up a hill on his bike, stopping to rest along the way, and then rode down the other side of the hill

Jake went to the pool to swim. Later he made this graph to show the data from his swim. How long did it take him to swim one lap?

Jake swam the second lap slowly, but he swam it at what kind of speed?

• Slow

• Fast

• Constant

The graph shows temperatures for a day in March from 8 am to 8 pm.

What time did the lowest temperature occur?

A trucking company delivers paper products to grocery stores. Two of their drivers left the depot at the same time. Each had 3 deliveries to make. Fill in the blank below based on the graph.

The driver named _____ made all 3 deliveries within 50 miles of the depot

Look again at the graph for the truck drivers. Which of the sentences below are true, based on the graph.

• When moving, Mel drove at a constant 50 miles per hour (mph).

• Mel got back to the depot first.

• Mel had a longer route to drive than Tom.

Michelle is out at the curb visiting with a neighbor. Then she walks toward her house to pick a flower from the flowerbed and returns to the curb to give the flower to the neighbor. If Michelle drew a graph to best represent her movement, what would it look like?

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Stacey, the local mail carrier, starts at the sidewalk by the street and walks towards the Garcia family's house to place the mail in their mailbox. If Stacey were to draw a graph of her movement what would it look like?

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Which of the following could be shown by the graph?

• A mother robin leaves a patch of dirt with a worm to feed her babies. After feeding her babies, she flies back to the patch of dirt to get another worm.

• A flock of geese leaves its summer home to fly south for the winter.

• Becky rides her bike home from a friends house.

Match the graph to the appropriate description of a bicycle activity.

• travels at a constant speed, stops at a stop sign, goes down a hill, and then bikes up a hill to another stop sign.

• traveling relatively fast consistently decreases in speed over time.

• increases speed at a faster and faster rate over time.

• speeds down a hill and then rides up another hill before stopping to rest.