The number of bicycle wheel turns is as good as any way to describe the distance from school to home. An interactive lets young mathematicians determine the number of city blocks a person bicycles. They use this information along with an algebraic expression to determine the number of times the bicycle wheel turns.

Concepts

algebraic expressions, variables, evaluating expressions

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the last challenge question as a journal entry prompt
  

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a free CK-12 account to access the resource
• Pupils should know how to evaluate expressions
  

Pros

• Includes hints for some of the challenge questions
• Provides a tutorial with both text and video components
  

Cons

• Interactive is not particularly useful as all it does is help in counting blocks
  

Common Core

6.EE.A.2.b HSA-SSE.A.1.a