Checking and securing understanding of reading from context-based graphs

I can interpret graphs that model real-life situations graphically.

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Checking and securing understanding of reading from context-based graphs

I can interpret graphs that model real-life situations graphically.

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Key learning points

Distance-time graphs can tell you about a journey.
By reading the graph, you can tell if there is mistake with it.

Keywords

Rate of change - The rate of change is how one variable changes with respect to another. If the change is constant, there is a linear relationship between the variables.

Common misconception

The line on a distance time graph can go in any direction.

The line may be horizontal, time changing without a change in distance, but it cannot be vertical. That would be a change in distance without a change in time. Additionally, our line cannot go backwards; time is always moving forwards.

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Pupils can use their own water bottles to sketch their own graphs. They could compare depth time graphs of different containers by sketching on the same graph. If the containers have the same capacity but different shapes what will those graphs look like? What parts of the graph will be steeper?

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