Average Speed (Primary 6)
MATHEMATICS
SECOND TERM
WEEK 10
PRIMARY 6
THEME – MEASUREMENTS
PREVIOUS LESSON – Second Term Scheme of Work and Plan Lesson Notes for MATHEMATICS Week 1 to Week 12 Primary Schools
TOPIC – AVERAGE SPEECH
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to –
1. calculate average speed.
2. solve quantitative aptitude problems on time and speed.
ENTRY BEHAVIOUR
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of clock face, stop watch, railway timetable, bus timetable, air timetable.
METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.
Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
1. Scheme of Work
2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum
3. Course Book
4. All Relevant Material
5. Online Information
CONTENT OF THE LESSON
LESSON ONE – INTRODUCTION TO SPEED
Pupil’s Activities 1 – Compare Speed of Two or More Motors
If you are traveling to your hometown, which of the means of land transportation will you like to take? State reasons for any of the list below.
1. Hummer bus
2. Coastal bus
3. Lt bus
4. Volkswagen bus
5. Marcopolo bus
6. Train
Expected Pupil’s Response – Money, speed and time.
Teacher’s remark – The choice of means of transportation especially land transportation is greatly determined by speed and time takes to reach various destinations.
Teacher’s/Pupil’s Activities 2 – Speed and Time Taken
Speed is often measured in kilometres per hour (minute) or meters per second. This is written for short as km/h(m) or m/s. To find the average speed, you divide distance covered by time taken.
That is: Average speed =
Distance covered
= _______________________
Time Taken
Working Examples
- A car takes 3 700 km in 5 hours. What is its average speed?
Given,
Distance = 3 700 km
Time = 5 hours
Average speed
Distance covered
= _______________________
Time Taken
Average speed = 3 700 km /5 h
= 740 km/h
- Ayomide walked a distance of 180 metres in 5 seconds. Find his average speed.
Average speed = 180 m/5 s = 36 m/s.
Pupil’s Activities 2 – Class Exercise/Take Home
1. If it takes 3 hours to drive a distance of 210 km on a motorway, what would be your average speed in km/h?
2. A train travelled 10 080 km in 12 hours. Find its average speed.
LESSON TWO – WORK IN PROGRESS
PRESENTATION
To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:
1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;
2. Guides pupils to calculate average speed as distance covered over time.
Pupil’s Activities – Calculate average speed using distance covered over time.
3. Guides pupils to solve quantitative aptitude problems related to time and speed.
Pupil’s Activities – Solve quantitative aptitude problems related to time and speed.
CONCLUSION
To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.
LESSON EVALUATION
Pupils to calculate speed when time and distance are given.