How Race Car Drivers Use Math

by Sheri L. Arroyo, Rhea A. Stewart (Contributor)

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.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Karan Johnstone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books is all about how race car drivers use math in their everyday life. It has graphs, word problem, and a Venn diagram. This book would be of high interest to boys since it talks about racing cars. I love how it has problems that the students can work out at the end of each section.
This is a good real world example of how to use math. I could use this book during workshop and put all the kids in groups to work out the problems. They could partner read the book and work the problems.

[Brooke]

This book tells how race car drivers use math in their day to day lives. Drivers have to use numbers all the time from the how fast they are driver their car to how fast the average is to make a lap around the track and how to make those times faster.

[Mms Mamdouh Al Shamy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Naive book.
The math used is in it is at the level of elementary years (addition, subtraction, ..)
It talks allot about the info of NASCAR and F1 winning and losing.

[Morgan Sires · Rating 1 out of 5]

I learned a lot from this book. And it wasn't as boring as I thought it was going to be!