BikeWithMe School Classroom Challenge

The following table shows 3 types of graph lessons for two recently held contests, from different schools. All data shown represents real riding mileage.

Math Lessons
From Two Fall, 2007 Contest
(Click to view Lessons)

Shown in Graph	Type of Graph	Contest A	Contest B
Cumulative Team Miles By Week	Line	Line-A	Line-B
Individual Total Mileage vs. Riding Frequency	XY Scatterplot	XY-A	XY-B
Team Weekly Mileage	Side-By-Side Vertical Bar	VBar-A	VBar-A
Total Weekly Mileage By Team	Stacked Vertical Bar	StVBar-A	StVBar-A
Family Member Mileage Contribution	Stacked Vertical Bar	StVBar-A	StVBar-B
Individual Participation Rates	Pie Charts	Pie-A	Pie-B

These Example Lessons Are Available for Use

These example lessons are free for use in any classroom in any school. If you are a teacher, by using the example lessons of another school, you can learn whether your students would enjoy having their own contest. Alternatively, using these graphs can help build excitement for a contest you will be having. The students will most likely prefer their own data instead of that from some other school.

Start Your Own Contest and Create your Own Lessons

Currently, 6 different graph lessons are available (Dec, 2007) to any school hosting its own biking contest. See the lesson schedule, or the range of math topics covered by the lesson series. These lessons have been written to cover specific areas of National Teaching Standards.

These Lessons Save Teachers Time

Starting a biking contest should take about 30 minutes of the teacher's time. Contests usually are 10 weeks long depending upon the weather patterns in the area. Assuming it takes 30 minutes for a teacher to prepare a lesson....

The BikeWithMe system saves a math teacher over 3 hours of time to prepare exciting graphing lessons.

Also a Wellness and Lifestyle Emphasis

Naturally, the lessons present or ask about concepts important in teaching middle school level mathematics. But, in addition, woven into the presentation, are suggestions, ideas, and concepts related to living a healthy, active lifestyle. Given the ongoing, escalating obesity crises, which is affecting all age groups but particuarly the young, it is important to shape the values and attitudes of today's young people so they may have healthy and long lives.