Tire and Wheel Assemblies is a sample Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics lesson created by an automotive and math teacher team from Arizona. The lesson’s objective is to prepare students to create and use formulas to calculate the diameter of a tire and wheel assembly. The CTE concepts taught in this lesson are tire sizes and designations. Math concepts include creating and using formulas to solve problems, diameter, conversions, and percent.

Math-enhanced CTE lessons are written only after CTE and math teacher teams work together to develop a curriculum map that identifies the CTE concepts and intersecting math concepts (including the Common Core math standards) that are naturally embedded within the CTE curriculum. Once the map is complete, the CTE and math teacher teams, working in communities of practice, select from within it one or more CTE concepts and related math concepts to develop into CTE lesson plans. Math-in-CTE’s seven-element pedagogic framework (PDF) guides this lesson development process. When the lessons are complete, the CTE teachers create scope and sequence plans for integrating the lessons into their courses.

Math-in-CTE’s seven-element pedagogic framework (PDF)

Curriculum Map: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics (PDF)

Lesson Plan: Tire and Wheel Assemblies (PDF)

Diameters of Tire and Wheel Assemblies PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)

Worksheet A: Tire and Wheel Diameters (PDF)

Worksheet A: Tire and Wheel Diameters - Key (PDF)

Worksheet B: Conversions and Percents (PDF)

Worksheet B: Conversions and Percents - Key (PDF)