Bicycle Rides

Description

This is a spreadsheet-based activity for beginning calculus students, involving position and velocity data in numerical and graphical representations.

Student directions and questions

• 2-day version for Calculus BC class
• 1-day version for Calculus AB class: directions and homework
• 2-day version for Intro. to Calculus class: directions and homework

Spreadsheets used in the activity

• tutorial.xls (Excel tutorial, optional)
• ride1.xls
• ride2.xls
• ride3.xls (not used in 1-day version of the activity)