Distance Time Graphs — Interactive Lesson (Ages 13–14)

Can your students read a whole journey from a single graph? This 31-slide interactive lesson teaches them to interpret and construct distance time graphs, using real journeys and self-marking questions.

Mastering Distance Time Graphs in Year 9 Maths

Students learn that the horizontal axis shows time while the vertical axis shows distance, then follow real journeys, including a car trip to a friend’s house in three distinct parts. They decide whether a line shows constant speed, slowing down or accelerating hard, read distances and times from a graph, and find the total distance and speed of a journey. The lesson ends by constructing a distance time graph from given information.

What’s Included

• 31-slide interactive lesson with real journeys
• Four clear learning objectives covering reading, calculating and constructing graphs
• Real-journey examples, including a car trip, a cyclist and Tom’s Sunday morning journey
• Multiple-choice questions with instant right-or-wrong feedback
• A final task constructing a distance time graph from information

Key Benefits for Students

• Builds the skill of reading a journey from a graph
• Practises finding total distance, time taken and speed
• Instant feedback shows straight away whether an answer is right
• Moves from reading graphs to drawing them

Why Teachers Love It

• No prep — ready for whole-class teaching on an interactive whiteboard
• Self-marking questions support independent practice
• Real journeys make the axes and lines easy to explain
• A useful recap whenever graph reading needs refreshing

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A dependable addition to a Year 9 graphs topic, giving students a clear method for reading and drawing graphs of journeys. Describing what each section means is a skill they will use again in later maths work.

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FAQ

What year group is this for? Year 9 (ages 13–14).

Does it cover drawing the graph as well as reading it? Yes — the lesson finishes by constructing a distance time graph.

Is it self-marking? Yes, with instant feedback on the questions.