FastTrack Applied STEM Challenges

Applied Science, Math & Technology

**No Consumeables**

If you want to play professional sports, you start young and play hard. Shouldn't that be true for budding scientists, engineers & mathematicians? With FastTrack Challenges, students learn to play the innovation 'game' (and love it!).

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							The More You Know, The Faster You Go! The FastTrack Racing Challenges is a National STEM Challenge league and integrated STEM curriculum in which students build teams around 1:10 scale RC cars that mirror motorsports teams in almost every way. Teams are rewarded for managing and marketing themselves, but as professional racing teams know, their ultimate challenge is to go Further, Faster. That is an engineering problem at its best. FastTrack Racing Challenges Flier Launch the FastTrack RC Web Site
	These inquiry-based Challenges grow in complexity from teacher-initiated and teacher-guided activities into student-initiated and student-led investigations. FastTrack Challenges use 1:16 scale RC cars, the excitement of driving and racing to infuse grade-appropriate rigor and relevance into integrated science and math studies.

Grades 3-5

Math2Go for Elementary Grades

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

Two Options:
1. Math2Go
2. The FastTrack Racing Challenges

FastTrack Racing Challenges
Read more about the National STEM League, projects and integrated STEM lessons at the FastTrack RC web site.
Launch the FastTrack RC Web Site

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

Two Options:
1. Math2Go
2. The FastTrack Racing Challenges

FastTrack Racing Challenges
Read more about the National STEM League, projects and integrated STEM lessons at the FTRC web site.
Launch the FastTrack RC Web Site

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