This is an experiment to help high school freshmen/sophomores figure out their rate of walking.

Toss a ball between each hand with an arc about 16 inches high and wide to slightly slow your speed.

Time yourself to see how long it takes to walk 100 feet.

Divide 100 feet by the time it took to walk it. This will give you how many feet per second you travelled. (Rate * Time = Distance) Multiply this number by 12 to find inches per second.

To calculate miles per hour, first multiply the time it took by 60 for minute then by 60 again for hour.

Take the new number and divide by 5,280, since there are 5,280 feet in one mile.

The number that you now have will be equal to how fast you can walk and toss in miles per hour.

For units of distance note that twelve inches equals one foot and 5280 feet equals one mile. Also 2.54 centimeters equals one inch.

For more information and ideas about this project you may link to a page written by one of the following math artists: Danielle, Darlene, Kellie, Jill, Nanyal, Kevin's Second Web Page, Crystal, Rachel, Christina, Jennifer, Candice, Vincent, Esther and Melinda. Most of us are in this picture but not in order of names.