Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative

National STEM League & Curriculum for Classes, Camps & Clubs
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The Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative^TM is the 'practice league' through which future engineers, scientists, marketing and creative professionals actively embrace their present and prepare for their futures.

Students optimize performance of 1:10 scale radio controlled (RC) cars, paralleling the activity in track garages across the country. Why motorsports? Because it is the only sport won or lost in real time by applying STEM. and is a very

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There are over 14 million ways to set up your team car. Playing the technology lottery with trial and error will get you frustrated, faster. Make a mathematical model of your car's performance to narrow those 14 million down to a relative hand full of good options very quickly. That is the essence of race engineering.

The top 5 most common reasons that the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative program and curriculum are embraced by educators:

1. Math Modeling is at its foundation

2. Facilitates Differentiated Learning

3. Program is Sustainable

4. Enough Curriculum for students to self-start....but not too much to stifle creativity

5. Exciting & Motivating

Grades 3-5

1. Math2Go for Elementary

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At the earliest stages of learning, connect purpose and practice with the procedures of science and math with these six grade-specific challenges that can last all year.

Each Math2Go Challenge poses a fun question and guides students to actively seek a scientific answer. 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have a motivating reason to measure, compute, organize their own data and plot charts to improve scores.

Incorporate applied challenges on a weekly, monthly basis in the classroom or as an afterschool club.

Table of Contents, Grade 4

Grades 6-8

1. Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative for Middle School

The middle grades curriculum lays the foundation for active inquiry and investigations using the Math2Go (small) cars then moves students into the more technically advanced (and much faster) 1:10 scale RC cars.

Read more about the National STEM League, projects and integrated STEM lessons at the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge web site.

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2. Math2Go for Middle Grades

Pave the way to success in problem solving, physics, algebra and higher math by engaging middle grade students in scaled-down Challenges that real professionals encounter.

¤ Understand how time, distance relate, speed and acceleration relate
¤ Reinforce basic computation, measurement and units

¤ Before talking about them, experience the difference in:
- Speed & Acceleration
- Instant. &. Average Acceleration
- Power & Work
- Linear & Quadratic equations

¤ Bridge the gap between symbolic math/science to applied math/science

¤ Move beyond making graphs to using graphs for making informed decisions

See Intro to Math2Go Challenge #4

Grades 9-12

1. Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative

Projects, investigations and lessons can be integrated into the core math, science, technology, engineering, or STEM courses. The Student Racing Challenge is often kicked-off as a summer camp, implemented as an after school science or STEM club with teachers using the appropriate lessons to teach core physics and math lessons during the formal school day.

Read more about the National STEM League, projects and integrated STEM lessons at the program web site.

Open Student Racing Ch. Web

2. Math2Go for High School

High school students get all the benefits of the middle grades Math2Go, but these advanced Challenges extend to include formal physics and higher math.

¤ Move beyond 'plugging and chugging' when learning concepts in physics.

¤ See that Newton's Laws of Motion really do describe our experience as they do the movement of planets.
¤ Derive the quadratic equation from your own data

¤ Use regression analysis to make real decision then see the consequences of those decisions.

¤ Find derivatives of equations YOU derived to improve scores

See Math2Go Contents & Intro