Mathematics and Society - OS X Lion Server

INTRODUCTIONMATHEMATICS AND SPORTSIndividual sports and the mathematics involved provide the ideas for the page~l\in the third part.Track and field, bowling, baseball, football, ski jumping,shuffleboard, boxing, tennis, cycling, and boating are all used to cover such diversemathematical topics as computing range, mean, median and mode;interpreting and makingscale drawings; ordering fractions; and measuring distances and times.simulations of athletic events, e.g., Bowling with Dice, Fraction Bar Football,Classroom Decathlonare included among these pages.SeveralSeveral of the pages make use of records. As these records are broken, you cansubstitute current records, especially metric ones as the transition to the metricsystem in the United States is completed.Pages in MATHEMATICS AND SPORTS can serve as a springboard for other areas ofstudy. Sports, especially with the Olympic Games, has an international flavor. TheLittle League World Series involves teams from other countries, and high school andcollege wrestling and gymnastics teams are involved in exchange programs with teamsfrom foreign nations.these countries.Use of these events can interest students in studying aboutThe concept of consumerism could be explored by examining costs ofequipment, money spent on concessions, salaries of professional athletes, admission/prices to sporting events, attendance at these events, and capacities of the arenas\,or stadiums that hold these events.In conclusionl;lHdon't strike out"; "be on the ball"; "get out of the startingblocks quickly"; and use some pages from MATHEMATICS AND SPORTS to capture the interestof your students and provide motivation for the study of mathematics.and372