Rising 6th graders attending our Summer Transition Program at Nathan Hale Middle School are determining the relation between elapsed time and distance traveled when a moving object is under constant acceleration.
Christy Counts, an 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher at Nathan Hale Middle School, is the Lead Program Coordinator of our B.A.R.K. Afterschool Program there as well as the leader of our 6th Grade Summer Transition Program at the school.
How do you find distance from velocity and time? Just ask Ms. Counts’s students. When velocity is positive on an interval, we can find the total distance traveled by finding the area under the velocity curve and above the t -axis on the given time interval. In other words, Velocity is the change in position (x), or distance, over time. If you know the change in position and the amount of time taken to complete the journey, you can determine velocity. Similarly, if you have any two of these variables, you can always solve for the third.
