Launch
Students will launch the traffic limits project by testing candidate function models against real traffic data, using simple limit cases to decide which models make sense, and beginning evidence-based explanations about where behavior levels off or jumps. They will also analyze one-sided behavior and discontinuities from early project data, hear an outside transportation perspective, and record a first audio defense that sets up later revision cycles.
Days 1 - 2
🚦 Countdown Curve Match-Up
Launch 45m
🎧 Planner Clip and Limit Voice Note
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Take a Position
Students will take an evidence-based position about what limits should reveal in a traffic flow or signal timing model, test competing function ideas with graphs, tables, and equations, and produce an initial one-page model plus a short audio defense that identifies a likely one-sided limit behavior for later investigation.
Days 3 - 8
🚦 Countdown Curve Position Sprint
Launch 45m
πŸ“ˆ One-Sided Limits With Desmos
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧩 Discontinuity Sort and Model Test
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
πŸ—‚οΈ City Planner Data Credibility Check
Community Experience 40m
πŸ“ Initial Model Card Draft
Deliverable 50m
🎧 Audio Defense Feedback Round
Assessment 45m
Investigate Evidence
Students will evaluate the strength of mathematical and contextual evidence for competing traffic-flow claims, test whether models make sense with simple limit cases, and build a revised evidence map that includes both supporting evidence and counterevidence about one-sided limits and discontinuities.
Days 9 - 13
🧭 Traffic Evidence Credibility Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
πŸ“‰ One-Sided Traffic Graph Clinic
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
πŸ§ͺ Limit Case Stress Test
Research 45m
πŸ—ΊοΈ Limit Evidence Map Draft
Deliverable 50m
πŸ” Evidence Map Peer Revision
Assessment 45m
Defend and Refine
Students will refine traffic-flow and signal-timing arguments by connecting evidence to limit claims, addressing counterevidence, revising mathematical language through peer critique, rehearsing spoken defenses, and completing a milestone performance task with reflection.
Days 14 - 18
🧠 CER Warrant Builder
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
πŸ—‚οΈ Model Card Argument Draft
Deliverable 45m
πŸ—£οΈ Audio Critique Round
Project Work 45m
🚦 Planner Challenge Q&A
Community Experience 40m
🎀 Traffic Defense Performance
Assessment 45m
Showcase
Students will present polished traffic-flow limit models to an authentic audience, defend conclusions about one-sided limits and discontinuities using graphs, equations, and spoken reasoning, and record a concise reflection on how their understanding of limits changed through critique and revision.
Days 19 - 20
🚦 Traffic Limits Showcase
Community Experience 45m
πŸŽ™οΈ Limits Shift Audio Reflection
Deliverable 45m