What are traces?

Traces are like footprints that something leaves behind when it moves through a place.

Imagine you're playing on the floor with your favorite toy car. When you push it across the room, it might leave a little line or mark on the carpet, that’s a trace! It's like a message saying, "I was here."

Traces can tell us where something went and how it moved.

If you see a bunch of small lines on the floor, you might know that your toy car zoomed across the room quickly. If there are big, wobbly marks, maybe it was going slow or taking turns.

Traces help us figure out what happened, even if we weren’t there to watch it happen!

Like when you leave a trail of crumbs from your snack time, and your brother follows them to find the cookie jar. He used traces to solve a mystery!