Title: Speed
Learning Objective: Today we will calculate the speed of objects
Starter: Who’s the fastest? Key words
Rank them from slowest to fastest. Speed
Distance
•Usain bolt Time
•Horse fly Kilometres
Seconds
•Sailfish
•Lion
•Eagle
•Cheetah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IebRS6QbAE
Lesson outcomes:
• Calculate speed, distance and time
• Understand that we often calculate average speed
Converting units
In some of the questions you might need to find out the speed/distance/time but the units are not the
same. You need to convert the units to find what you’re looking for.
For example:
A car travels 2 miles in 2 minutes. What’s the speed in mph?
We need to convert minutes into hours!
There are 60 minutes in an hour
So for our example, we will convert 2 minutes into hours by doing: 2 minutes ÷ 60 = 0.033 hours
Then speed = distance ÷ time
Speed = 2 ÷ 0.033
Speed = 60mph
Converting units
Converting units
1000
1000
1.6
1000
24 60
24 60
24 60
Learning check
1) How many meters are in 6 kilometres?
2) How many seconds are in 2 minutes?
3) How many meters are in 30 kilometres?
4) How many meters are in 1.2 kilometres?
BONUS QUESTION
5) How many seconds are in 2 hours?
Answers
1) How many meters are in 6 kilometres? 6 x 1000 = 6000m
2) How many seconds are in 2 minutes? 2 x 60 = 120s
3) How many meters are in 30 kilometres? 30 x 1000 = 30,000m
4) How many meters are in 1.2 kilometres? 1.2 x 1000 = 1200
BONUS QUESTION
5) How many seconds are in 2 hours? 2 hours = 120 minutes
120 x 60 = 7200
New information
Calculating speed, distance or time
Rearrange the formula
to calculate
a)Distance
b)Time
New information
Calculating speed, distance or time
Speed, Distance and Time
1. A man walks a distance of 10 metres in 5
seconds. What is his speed?
2. A car drives a distance of 100 metres in 10
seconds. What is his speed?
Speed, Distance and Time
1. A man walks a distance of 10 metres in 5 8. A car travels a distance of 100 metres in 20
seconds. What is his speed? seconds. What is the speed of the car?
2. A car drives a distance of 100 metres in 10 9. A bike travels at a speed of 20 m/s for 20
seconds. What is his speed? seconds. How far does the bike travel in this
time?
3. Emma walks at a speed of 2m/s in 20
seconds, how far does she walk? d=sxt 10. A girl runs for a distance of 120 m at a speed
4. Michael walks 240m in 120s, what is his of 6 m/s. How long does it take her to cover
speed? s=d/t this distance?
5. An aeroplane takes 10 seconds to travel 2km 11. A car travels at 30 m/s for 2 minutes. How far
has it travelled in this time?
– what is its speed in m/s? s=d/t
6. A car travels 500m at 250m/s. How long does 12. A car travels at 30 km/hour. How far, in
it take in seconds? t=d/s metres, will the car cover in 90 seconds?
7. A car travels at a speed of 10m/s – how far in
meters does it travel in 10 seconds?
Speed, Distance and Time
1. A man walks a distance of 10 metres in 5 8. A car travels a distance of 100 metres in 20
seconds. What is his speed? seconds. What is the speed of the car?
2. A car drives a distance of 100 metres in 10 9. A bike travels at a speed of 20 m/s for 20
seconds. What is his speed? seconds. How far does the bike travel in this
time?
3. Emma walks at a speed of 2m/s in 20
seconds, how far does she walk? d=sxt 10. A girl runs for a distance of 120 m at a speed
4. Michael walks 240m in 120s, what is his of 6 m/s. How long does it take her to cover
speed? s=d/t this distance?
5. An aeroplane takes 10 seconds to travel 2km 11. A car travels at 30 m/s for 2 minutes. How far
has it travelled in this time?
– what is its speed in m/s? s=d/t
6. A car travels 500m at 250m/s. How long does 12. A car travels at 30 km/hour. How far, in
it take in seconds? t=d/s metres, will the car cover in 90 seconds?
7. A car travels at a speed of 10m/s – how far in
meters does it travel in 10 seconds?
Speed, Distance and Time
1. 2m/s
2. 10m/s
3. 40m
4. 2m/s
5. 200m/s
6. 2s
7. 100m
Choose your spice:
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15
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Mild Answers
500 x 2 = 1000 miles
200 / 10 = 20 seconds
8/1 = 8 hours
10 x 8 = 80 metres
60/15 = 4 seconds
100/50 = 2 hours
100 x 4 = 400 metres
Medium Answers
10/20 = 0.5 miles
12/60= 0.2 hours
200 x 1.5 = 300 km
1600/80= 20 hours
8 x 2 = 16 metres
200 x 0.25 = 50 hours
12 x 24 = 288 metres
Hot Answers
50/5 = 10 seconds
(30 x 0.5)+(70 x 2)= 155 miles
50miles/25= 2 hours
(40/20)+(50/5)= 12 hours
20/0.5 = 10 minutes
(400 x 5) / 400 = 5 laps
(42,000/5) /60 = 140 hours
Extra practice
Remember to convert hours into seconds, and meters into kilometres
• Calculate speed for: • Calculate time for: • Calculate distance for:
1. D = 5 m 1. D = 20 m 1. t = 45 s
t = 20 s S = 2 m/s S = 5 m/s
2. D = 1 km 2. D = 1.2 km 2. t = 3 minutes
t=2s S = 50 m/s S = 100 m/s
3. D = 50 km 3. D = 45 km 3. t = 55 minutes
t = 15 minutes S = 10 m/s S = 63 m/s
4. D = 115 km 4. D = 236 km 4. t = 2 hours
t = 1 hour
S = 300 m/s S = 600 m/s
Answers
1. S = 0.25 m/s 1. t = 10 s 1. D = 225 m
2. t = 24 s 2. D = 18000 m = 18
2. S = 500 m/s 3. t = 4500 s = 1 hour km
15 minutes 3. D = 207900 m =
3. S = 55.5 m/s 207.9 km
4. t = 786.6 s = 13
4. S = 31.9 m/s minutes 6.6 s 4. D = 432000 m = 432
km
