Metadata for Tool
| Tool Name | Runners Activity or Runners |
| Brief | User sets starting position, direction and step size of one or two runners, runs simulation and views graph. |
| Goal | Understanding Distance, Speed and Time (and Slopes, Linear Functions) |
| Grade | 6-9 (6th grade, 7th grade, pre-algebra, algebra) |
| Strand | Algebra and Functions, Algebra |
| Standard | CA 6.AF.2.3, CA 7.AF.4.2, IS 1.AL.2.4, ACT EE 24-27, ACT GR 24-27 |
| Keywords | distance, speed, time, runners, slope, linear functions, simulation, applet |
| Comments | Suitable for 6th-grade on up Runners Activity Worksheets |
| Source | NCTM: http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.2/ |
| Discussion | Math Forum @ Drexel - MathTools: http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/13171/ |
| Cost | Freeware (online) or purchase CD from NCTM |
| Download | Free online only: http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.2/standalone.htm |
| Type | Java Applet so requires free sunJava player |
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