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Does a player’s draft order (NFL) mean a lot for the player?
Every spring, roughly 250 college football players are drafted by NFL teams through the NFL draft. Team rosters, careers, and multi-million dollar contracts are on the line … This is one of the biggest days of a football players life.…
Patriots Day, Tax Day, and the Boston Marathon
So much is happening on April 15th this year! As families and the news talk about filing taxes on time, it might be an excellent time to deal with where that tax money goes. Debt and Deficit give meaning to what tax…
Greatest March Madness program
We are nearing the finale of this year’s March Madness tournament. Which NCAA teams must have the best basketball programs since they consistently do well in this tournament? Based on this data, which do you think is the greatest March…
Are baseball games getting longer?
March 28th was opening day for this year’s Major League Baseball season. It’s a good time for some Major League Baseball math! In this activity students think about how major league game lengths have changed over time. Is there a…
Big bucks
Mike Trout just signed a huge contract. He’ll be receiving $430 million dollars playing for 12 years with the Los Angeles Angels. Let’s take a look at some of the other big world sports’ contracts from the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB…
Does seeding really matter?
March Madness is the big 68 team college basketball tournament that takes over our TV viewing during the weekends of March. School and office friends are filling out brackets. Engage your students in percents as they get excited about March…
The perfect bracket
Sunday, March 17th, is Selection Sunday for the Men’s March Madness Tournament. Monday night, March 18th is the selection night for the Women’s March Madness Tournament. The March Madness bracket predictions can begin. What are your chances of picking every…
The Iditarod. Is it the last great race on Earth?
Students do some rate, distance, and hardship comparisons to decide if they agree that the Iditarod is really the Last Great Race on Earth.
Choosing the NBA All-Star team
Sunday, February 17th will be NBA All-Star game. The two team captains are Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) and LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers). These guys were the vote getters among fan/media/players votes. On Thursday, Feb. 7 at the All Star Draft Show they…
Super Bowl, Groundhog Day, and even more football posts (19 activities)
Super Bowl Cheesy pretzel poppers – Students follow a recipe that involves cutting a block of cheese, figuring how many servings, estimating how many times they need to multiply the recipe by to make enough pretzel bites, and multiplying and reducing…
Typical Super Bowl scores
In this activity students study historical Super Bowl data to reflect on average (mean, median, and mode), losing scores, winning scores, and range of scores. They are asked to judge which of these central measurements seem the most meaningful and explain their…
Cost of a Super Bowl ad
1993 McDonald’s Super Bowl commercial Here’s another Super Bowl analysis to motivate your students. 5 million dollars for a 30-second ad. That is how much a one-half minute commercial will cost during the 2019 Super Bowl game. Wonder how much it…
Super Bowl numerals, 2019
Super Bowl numbers are appearing again. As students start getting into the current Super Bowl hype, help them to understand the notation that the sports writers and advertisements are using. Introduce Roman numerals to your class. In this activity students learn…
Bowling Deals
Clicking on this image will show it larger in a new window. Is there a general way to figure how much its going to cost you (and your friends) to go bowling? Should you pay per game? Or bowl per…