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Directions: The goal of this survey is to inform the designers and instructors about ways this activity helped you think about the complicated idea of qualitative graphs. We are interested your honest answers in order to improve the screen appearance and usefulness. We appreciate your time in filling this out.

First, we ask you to revisit the warm up challenge question. Please answer this question again, paying attention to any more detail or descriptive language that might explicate your answers more clearly as a result of this activity. If you feel that what you wrote the first time around was sufficient, then you can enter "Same as Original Answer" in the answer boxes.

Next, we ask you to answer some survey questions. Each question refers to one of the activities in the flag raising applet. The picture of the activity is on the left, and the questions pertaining to each picture are on the right side of this questionnaire. When you have completed the survey, click the "Submit" button.

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Warm up Question Revisited: The graph at left represents Jordan’s bike trip. Please answer each of the questions in the boxes provided.

a. Which segment of Jordan’s trip took the most time? How do you know?

b. During which segment of his trip did Jordan go the farthest? How do you know?

c. During which segment of his trip did Jordan travel the fastest? Explain how you know. Use distance and time in your argument.

d. Explain how you know that Jordan stopped during Segment B. Use time and distance in your argument.

SURVEY QUESTIONS

1. The goal of the first question was to introduce the flag scenario with just one flag moving.

Describe how you solved this first task. You may want to consider some of the following ideas in your answer:

	Did you raise and reset the flag several times before making a choice, or did you reveal the graph right away?
	Did you move the time slider on the graph
	Describe any perturbations (confusions) that you experienced. How did you resolve them?

2. In the second question you were asked to create a graph that reflected each of the two flag motions.

2. Please answer the following questions:

	Were you able to use the "drawing pencils" to sketch a graph, or did you just imagine what the two graphs would look like?
	Describe any differences between what you expected and what you saw. If the answer surprised you, what was surprising and how did you reconcile your expectations with what you saw?
	Does it make sense now?

3. In this activity, the flags moved at non-constant rates.

3. Please describe your reflections on this set of motions. Consider the following:

	Would you call these graphs linear or non-linear? Please explain your reasoning.
	Did the graphs that were created surprise you? If so, how?
	Were you able to match the correct graph the appropriate flag? If not, did the video help you?
	Did you view the video modeling how to interpret these graphs? What reactions to the video?
	Would you suggest that we place an introductory video before the first applet?

4. Matching Activity

Question 4:

Describe how you solved these tasks. Consider:

	Did you attend to specific wording in the descriptions?
	Did you visualize a graph that went with a description, or did you read the description and look for an appropriate graph?
	Which (if any) of the scenarios were problematic or surprising to you? Please explain.

5. This last activity was added later on the suggestion of one teacher who suggested that it would be neat to control the flag movement and see the resulting graph.

5. Describe your reactions to this activity.

	What did you find most challenging about this activity?
	Which (if any) graphs were particularly difficult to model? Please explain any insights you got from your work.
	Consider the second graph. How did you go about modeling this one?
	Do you have any other suggestions for modifications of this activity?

Finally, we are interested to learn about your overall impressions of this assignment on the web [please be honest, remember this is anonymous!).

Did you find it useful? Clear? Interesting? What changes could make it better? Would you ever want to use these simulations in your own teaching?

Thanks very much for your time, we realize this was a long survey!!

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