Racetrack – Race Around A Graph

Objective

Students will work with negative numbers and a grid to get their car around a track first.

• Students draw a racetrack on grid paper.
• They each start at the starting line.
• On their turn, each player can add or subtract one to the X and their Y velocity
• In other words, they can speed up or slow down by 1 in each direction.
• They must navigate around the track without crashing into a wall.

A game in progress. The single player is certain to crash on their next turn.