Racing Math: Cherckered Flag Activities and Projects for Grades 4-8

If the names Gordon and Earnhardt mean more to your students than Pythagoras, if Ferraris and funny cars get their motors running, this is the book for you. Your students will practice their math skills while learning cool stuff about the world of car racing. They'll calculate tongue weights for safely towing racecars, determine how much time a driver wearing a fire-resistant suit has before flames blister his or her skin, and convert measurements to metric units for international racing. Activities and projects cover addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, decimals, ratios, averaging, charts and graphs, geometry, and interpreting data.

Barbara Gregorich has written numerous educational activity books and beginning readers, including Racing Math and Reading Baseball. Her adult nonfiction work, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, won the Chicago Women in Publishing award for best trade book of the year as well as the SABR-Macmillan award for best baseball research of the year. After teaching English at the university level, she now works as a full-time writer in Chicago.

Christopher Jennison, a publishing editor in New York City, is a lifelong sports enthusiast, and is the author and co-author of eight books, most on sports subjects. Jennison is also a long-standing member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and speaks regularly at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.