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NCAA Basketball finals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and interpret graphs of data sets. The data is used to devise reasons as to why teams in the NCAA Basketball finals from the 1950'sand up have the highest scores.
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of...
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Sports Math

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a variety of sports related problem solving equations that involve fractions, decimals and percents. They explain the relationships and equivalences among integers, fractions, decimals and percents with a...
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Basketball: Number Sense

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore their addition and subtraction skills. In this number sense instructional activity, 3rd graders analyze different scoring possibilities for a basketball game. This instructional activity incorporates the use a video...
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The Winning Edge: Probability in Basketball: Lesson 2

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students calculate the probability of a desired outcome based upon a statistically significant number of discrete events (i.e. endgame free-throw attempts). They participate in an online simulation of basketball free throws.
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Using Mean, Median, Mode, and Range through Basketball

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the sports pages of the newspaper to analyze the mean, median, mode and range of basketball statistics.
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Fitness Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in physical fitness activities. They role a dice and perform the activity associated with the dice number. Activities include push ups, toe touches, curl ups, jump rope, jumping jacks, sit-ups, and shooting a...
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How Much Has Math Changed?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve problems using the opposite, reciprocal and powers. In this algebra instructional activity, students solve problems with inequalities and absolute values. They show understanding of the basic content of math in this...
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Math Circuit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop fitness levels and reinforce specific sports skills while integrating basic math.
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Math Review for Grade 3 (3.2)

For Teachers 3rd
In this math review for grade 3 (3.2)  worksheet, 3rd graders answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format.
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Basketball As A Context for Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate fractions as percentages when associated with basketball. In this fraction and percentages lesson plan, students watch a video clip that includes mathematical information about women's basketball presented in...
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Roundball for Remembrance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view a segment of Futures With Jaime Escalante showing the application of math in basketball, and they try to find some of these applications in a tape of a game played by their home school. This fun lesson should be very...
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Creating and Destroying Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the types of symmetry that appear in different basketball symbols. They point out changes that rotate symmetry from one type to another.
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Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event II

For Teachers 7th Standards
Add some randomization into simulations. The 11th installment in a series of 25 presents two new methods to use in simulations--colored disks, and random numbers. Pupils use random numbers to run simulations where the probabilities make...
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Operations with Positive Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the concept of fractions and decimals! In this fractions and decimals lesson, pupils use fraction tiles to express fractions. They play a fraction review basketball game where when a team gets a question correct they get to shoot...
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Ratio Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.
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Venn Diagram and UK Basketball

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze data and make inferences. For this algebra lesson, students collect and analyze data as they apply it to the real world.
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No Foot, No Horse

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Why do horses wear shoes? Why do people wear shoes? Using worksheets, which are embedded in the plan, learners write descriptive paragraphs about their own shoes, classify a pile of shoes, and also engage in math games about the variety...
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Real World Equations!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your math class "get the picture" in a quadratic equation lesson that integrates digital photography. Individuals take pictures to help them model the shape of an item or situation using algebraic equations. They discover how to...
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Badminton or Basketball?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain why for a group of n people, there are an equal number of possibilities for subgroups of size k (such that k < n) and size n - k.
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Convert among decimals, fractions, and percents

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders convert among decimals, percents, and fraction with and without a calculator.  For this seventh grade mathematics lesson, 7th graders explore strategies that help them to remember how to perform the needed operation...
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Shaquille O'Neal: Foot and Hand Size

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this measurement worksheet, learners will cut out and compare their own feet and hands to that of basketball star, Shaquille O'Neal.
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Shaquille O'Neal Hand & Foot Span

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
If Shaquille O'Neal wears a size-20 shoe, how big are his hands? Learners will use the average ratios of foot length to hand span to calculate the hand span of Shaq, but first, they have to collect the data! They will measure their peers...
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Rocketsmania And Slope

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use a professional basketball team's data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They draw a line of regression and finding its equation. They access a website containing statistics for the Houston Rockets basketball team to solve...

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