Help us get America’s youth more physically active!  BikeWithMe’s Classroom Challenge offers a challenge to see which class can ride the most miles.  All students and their families are invited to participate.  The site collects each participant’s data, and then presents it in a variety of interesting graph formats, all which are designed to be used in the student’s math lessons.  The contest is open to students of all ages, and they are easy to set-up online!

Why School Biking Contests Work?
The most important reason for the success of classroom riding contests is simply that they are fun. The students are not only motivated by the contest itself, but also by seeing their riding data, the feeling of belonging to a team, and the ability to share their accomplishments with their friends and family.

A Tool for Teaching Math Skills
In tracking the cycling activity of many people, a large amount of raw data is collected. Through the site, students are able to analyze this data as it is presented in various types of graphs. This analysis helps to develop the student's math skills especially since it captures their attention. The data is about themselves and their own behavior! As they become more familiar with the graphs, they learn what the graphs mean but most importantly how they can affect it through what they do. Thus, their analysis provides them a type of a positive feedback loop. If they want to alter the data -- what their interpretations indicate about it -- they can change their behavior.

Math Modules
There are 5 different math lessons being designed to be used for a 1/2 hour lesson every other week during a riding contest.

A Focus on the Family
The classroom riding competition can include any mileage ridden by a student's family members. Everyone is encouraged to become more active and help obtain the classroom goal – as well as their own personal goal. BikeWithMe wishes to have schools become its partner, in order to not only get students riding but to improve the activity levels of the home environment. See Family Plan for more information.

Benefits (A great fit with school wellness initiatives)

• Improves the health of the students and participating parents and staff
• Teaches math skills effectively with weekly highlighted math lessons
• Teaches healthy lifestyles skills
• Improves the school/home connection and makes students more attentive.
• A program for all students, not just the athletic.
• Biking to school time-efficiently combines commuting and exercise.
• Family togetherness with parent participation.

Contests Are Free
Contests are available at a reasonable price, approximately the cost of a text book. There is a volume discount schedule.
Purchase Contests.

The Family Plan service is free.

Promoting A Contest
There are posters and brochures (right column above) which can be used to let everyone within the school share in the excitement of a biking contest about to begin. Contests really are open to everyone - students, teachers, and administrative staff. Both documents will look better when printed in color. If requested, BikeWithMe will send by mail posters to the school.