In the fall of 2024, Citizen Math released updated versions of every lesson in our library, plus a few new ones! We know you may have already prepped an earlier version or planned a repeat of last year, so we're continuing to make these earlier versions available through Thursday December 5, 2024.
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How do vehicles turn so smoothly? When a car makes a U-turn, the outer wheel travels farther than does the inner wheel. So why doesn’t the car feel jerky?
In this lesson, students calculate the circumferences of circles to determine how far vehicles travel during a turn and explore the engineering that allows cars to turn so smoothly.
