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Grades 3-5
1. Math2Go for Elementary
Math2Go
& Activities Page
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
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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.
Open Student Racing Ch. Web
Site
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.
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¤ Understand
how time, distance relate, speed
and acceleration relate
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¤ 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
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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.
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¤ See that
Newton's Laws of Motion really
do describe our experience as
they do the movement of planets.
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¤ Derive the
quadratic equation from your own
data
- ¤ Use regression
analysis to make real decision
then see the consequences of
those decisions.
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¤ Find
derivatives of equations YOU
derived to improve scores
See
Math2Go Contents & Intro
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