Day 1 - Clip 1
Introducing Clown's Walk
Ms. Coombs begins this lesson sequence in her
regular Algebra I class with an activity
involving a computer tool that displays the back
and forth motion of a character named
Clown. The students used this applet
earlier in the year, so they were familiar with
the action of Clown. In this clip, the students
are also asked to recall another prior activity
with the finger tool, in which they tracked the
measures of two quantities (e.g. elapsed time
and distance traveled). In particular, in this
clip they are asked to track Clown’s elapsed
time since starting with one index finger and
his distance traveled with the other index
finger. The activity is designed to help
students create mental images of coordinated
changes between elapsed time and total distance
traveled.
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