Taco Cart

Grade 9s are working on pythagorean theorem, and we worked on the 3 act task: taco cart.

We watched act 1 (available here)

and we noticed and wondered about who would get to the taco cart first. The students immediately knew that they needed more information and to my surprise asked for both the speeds and the lengths of the paths.

Here is the information to start act 2:

Dimensions and Speed information

We had a good time working with unit rates, and pythagorean theorem, and then converting time to minutes and seconds to see how much time separated the two people at the end. I had a hard time locating the final video in the moment (websites were down), but here it is!