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Get Ready For Some Football
Sixth graders compare and contrast the totals from two national football teams for the year. Using the internet, they search for the information they need and create a data bar graph. They use the information they collected to answer...
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How Many Blades of Grass in a Football Field?
Learners, by taking a sample count from a small area, estimate the total number of blades of grass in a football field. They use a cardboard from, the inside of which measures 1 square foot to do their calculations.
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Flicking Football Fun
Young mathematicians fold and flick their way to a deeper understanding of statistics with a fun, hands-on math unit. Over the course of four lessons, students use paper footballs to generate data as they learn how to create line...
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Candle Eyes
Candlelight is in the eye of the distant beholder. Scholars first watch a video clip of a commercial claiming that the human eye can see candlelight from 10 miles away. They use this information to calculate how far we can see...
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Words in the News: Blatter Blasts Football's New Money Men
Young scholars discuss an article headline about Sepp Blatter, the international football league president. In groups, they work together to match new vocabulary words to their definition. They read an article and answer questions about...
Mathalicious
XBOX Xpotential
Touchdown! This is an exponentially insightful lesson that explores the growth of football games with different video game consoles. Class members discuss whether the increase of mergahertz can be described as linear or exponential. The...
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Football Finances
Students use estimation to solve problems. In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students analyze picture of football stands to make estimates in attendance at the Super Bowl. Students also make estimates about the television...
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Football, the Beautiful Game
Discover how to use mathematics to make a stronger soccer team. Young soccer enthusiasts use given data to make decisions about a soccer team. They decide which position to assign each player, consider what makes a good pass and...
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Velocity
Students explore the concepts of velocity, acceleration, distance and football. They collect data on the velocity of a football and they determine the distance and height of a football when it is thrown. Students compare their findings...
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Geometry in Football
Students use the pythagorean theorem to solve problems. In this geometry lesson, students relate football to math and the coordinate plane. They calculate the perimeter, area and distance.
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Football Physics "Having A Ball With Projectile Motion"
Students examine the concept of projectile motion and identify the 3 components of projectile motion. They explore how physics applies to punting a football through punting activities and internet research.
Discovery Education
Ahead of the Game
According to the movie Wildcats, "It's the sport of kings, better than diamond rings, football!" It is also, however, the sport of severe concussions and ongoing blows to the head. In order to keep our Seahawks soaring and Broncos...
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Does Your Field Measure Up
Learners measure angles using a plane table kit. In this geometry lesson, students use trigonometric identities to find the values of the length of a football field.
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Matrix Operations
Two real-world activities to practice adding, subtracting and multiplying matrices to problem solve. Data from several Pro football quarterbacks is used in one activity to make some predictions based on their stats. Then the class takes...
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Words in the News: Maradona and the 'Hand of God'
Students discuss what they know about the World Cup and Football. In groups, they work together to match the new vocabulary words with their definitions. They read an article about the World Cup and answer questions.
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Mathematics and Football
Students analyze information represented graphically. In this third through fifth grade mathematics lesson, students apply mathematical knowledge to solve real-world problems relating to the Super Bowl. The activities involve number...
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The Football Kick An Application of Parametric Equations
Twelfth graders define parametric equations and take the derivative of parametric equations. In this calculus instructional activity, 12th graders solve word problems using parametric equations to find x,y and z. They observe graphics...
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Playing Catch-Up
Run, Rich, run! Learners watch a video clip from the NFL showing Rich Eisen running a 40-yard dash. It then superimposes a video clip of Julio Jones. The task is to determine who would complete the dash first—if Julio Jones runs at half...
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Angling for Distance
Explore the concept of projectile distance through determining the angle that will provide the maximum distance of a launched projectile. High schoolers launch baseballs on a football field and video tape the path of the ball.
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The Egg "Airbag" Lab
Students use what they know about momentum and impulse to construct an effective "air bag" to protect an egg dropped from the top of the football stadium or other tall structure. They complete a final written report of their findings.
Teach Engineering
How Big? Necessary Area and Volume for Shelter
Teams must determine the size of cavern needed to house the citizens of Alabraska to protect them from the asteroid impact. Using scaling properties, teams first determining the number of people that could sleep in a classroom and then...
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Punting and Projectile Motion
Young scholars explore the concept of projectile motion. In this physics lesson, students watch the video "Science of NFL Football – Projectile Motion and Parabolas." Young scholars participate in computer simulations on the range of...
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Get My Point!
Here is one of the better lessons I've come across on how to teach fractions and decimals. This lesson does a great job of showing how these two mathematical representations of numbers are interrelated. Some excellent websites, printable...
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Air Quality
Students observe air quality and monoxide data. For this air quality lesson, students draw conclusions and manipulate data from a one year period on changes in air quality.
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