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How Race Car Drivers Use Math
  • Authored by: Sheri L. Arroyo; Math Curriculum Consultant: Rhea A. Stewart, M.A., Specialist in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education
  • Also available in Math in the Real World Set, 10-Volumes
  • Trim Size: 7 x 9-1/4
  • ISBN-10: 160413609X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-60413-609-8
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $28.00
  • Imprint: Chelsea Clubhouse
  • Published: 10/01/2009
  • Dewey Number: 796
  • Reading Level: Grades 3-5
  • Pages: 32

Summary

When driving around the oval ring, drivers of race cars need to know much more than how to turn the wheel and avoid other drivers. How Race Car Drivers Use Math puts readers in the driver's seat to show how race car operators use math to calculate speed and fuel usage, judge their safety, and much more.

Concepts and skills emphasized include:

  • Number Sense and Operations
  • Problem Solving
  • Estimation
  • Measurement
  • Data Analysis.

Specifications

Full-color photographs and illustrations. Glossary. Further reading. Index.

About the Author(s)

Sheri L. Arroyo holds an M.A. in education. She has been an elementary school teacher in San Diego, California, for more than 20 years and has taught third grade for the past 13 years.

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