If for some reason, yu cannot open ours and need one, they can be downloaded free from the microsoft site. We also find that being PowerPoint savvy is almost a modern must when making business presentations. The newer version contains several lesson files for learning to collect and analyze data, and come in PDF format that can be read on Acrobat Reader as well as PowerPoint. In the same way that no one gets to be a great catcher before they learn to pick up a bat, one should glide seamlessly through mathematics, learning a new concept, then practicing it while going on to others. The contests we will run and others that you may run at local levels or convention settings provide continued motivation to improve scores and with that effort, mathematics becomes an appreciated and enjoyed tool.
People only practice what they enjoy or find useful.
Very few problems that are most easily solved through using mathematics are problems that students encounter. Our product capitalizes on the growing interest in motorsports racing, the high tech nature of this modern sport, and the dramatic theater of racing and its heroes. This was accomplished by analyzing the physics of race car dynamics and then building games around individual issues, i.e., the games cover the entire spectrum of the behavior of physical objects which are then broken out as specific concepts such as speed, velocity, acceleration, Newton's Laws, angular momentum, friction, etc. Most importantly the participants don't need to understand these concepts to begin to play. They will, however, find it useful to understand the issues and the mathematics that describe them if they intend to grow into serious players and competitors at the state or regional level.