What is the equation for calculating speed?
S = D/T
A bear takes 4 hours to walk from the forest to a stream. It walks at 3 miles per hour. How far did the bear walk?
12 miles
A snail crawls 5 feet per hour. How long will it take to travel 25 feet?
5 hours
Give 3 examples of keywords or labels for time.
seconds, milliseconds, minutes, hours, days, years
If a cat walks 10 miles in 2 hours, what is the cat's speed?
5 mph
A boy throws a baseball 18 yds in 6 sec. How fast is the ball traveling?
3 yd/s
A bus travels 20 miles per hour for 8 hours. How far does it travel?
160 mi
If your car travels 10 meters per second, how long will it take you to travel 1300 meters?
130 min
Give 3 examples of keywords or labels for distance. Use the abbreviated version for each.
km, m, mi, ft, yd, in, cm
A blimp flies 17 miles per hour for 10 hours. How far does it travel?
170 miles
Turbo the snail drives 35 meters to work, and it takes 7 minutes to get there. What is his speed?
5 m/min
A dog runs 12 miles per hour for 4 hours. How far does it run?
48 mi
If a tree grows at a speed of 4 cm per year, how long will it take to grow 144 cm?
36 years
Give 3 examples of keywords or labels for speed. Use the abbreviated term for each.
km/hr, m/s, mph, yd/s, yd/min, mi/min, cm/s
A jet flies to Spain in 5 hours. It traveled 935 miles. What was the speed of the jet?
187 mph
Gritty the mascot griddied for 20 meters. What is his speed if it took him 5 seconds to griddy the distance?
4 m/s
A bird flies 15 miles per hour for 8 hours. How far does it fly?
120 mi
A plane travels at 375 miles per hour. How long will it take to travel 2250 miles?
6 hours
A woman bikes at 15 miles per hour for 4 hours. How far does she bike in total?
60 miles
If a moose runs at a speed of 40 mph, how long will it take it to travel 480 miles?
12 hours
Sally races go-karts. The track is 900 yards long, and it takes her 12 minutes to take a lap. What is her speed?
75 yd/min
If you travel 60 mph for 8 hours, how far will you travel?
480 mi
If you travel a distance of 1500 miles going 75mph, how long will it take you to arrive at your destination?
20 hours
If you drive 60 meters per second, how long will it take you to travel 1020 meters?
17 seconds
Kalie and Ashton race down the hallway. The hallway is 160 feet long. It takes Kalie 10 seconds to get to the end. It takes Ashton 8 seconds. What is each student's speed, and who won the race?
Ashton - 8 ft/s (Ashton won)
Kalie - 10 ft/s