In the usual treatment of waves in introductory courses, one begins with traveling waves and the frequency/wavelength relationship f[lambda] = v, where "v" is the wave velocity. One then makes the point about superposition and shows that two waves traveling in opposite directions can add up to a standing wave; Eq. (1) still applies. This approach is problematic in two ways: (1) The motion being described, standing waves, has no apparent "velocity," and so it seems unnecessarily complex--perhaps unreasonably complex--to construct it out of moving waves; (2) It is not easy to derive the formula for the velocity of waves, especially for an audience without calculus or without multi-variate calculus (the wave equation).