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.
You can find the new lessons through the regular search, and we hope you love them as much as we do. You can read more about these updates in Our Community.
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How fast does your heart beat? What’s the fastest it could beat? And when you exercise, how hard should you be pushing your heart?
In this lesson, students write and graph an equation for a person’s maximum heart rate in terms of his or her age. Next, they learn about the effects that different heart rates have on the body and calculate ideal heart rate zones for different types of workouts. Do your students know how hard they have to work in order to burn fat? The answer may surprise them!
