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Fantasy Basketball and Mathematics Student Workbook

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ISBN-10: 0787994499

ISBN-13: 9780787994495

Edition: 2007

Authors: Dan Flockhart

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A great new way to get all students in grades 5 and up excited about math! Fantasy sports are a hit worldwide with over 17 million participants in the U.S. alone. Now teachers and parents can take advantage of this phenomenon to give students a reason to look forward to learning math. Choose from baseball, football, basketball and soccer to plan lessons that last for a week or a whole season, and teach one math concept or many. Students create fantasy teams by picking their favorite real-life players, they follow their player's statistics, and they calculate their teams' total points using algebraic or non-algebraic methods specifically designed to complement the math skills they are…    
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Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

About the Author
Acknowledgments
Fantasy Basketball and Mathematics Handouts
Description and Rules
Fantasy Team Roster
How to Read Box Scores
How to Collect Data
How to Compute Points
Practice in Computing Points, Using the Default Scoring System
Default Total Points Equation
Practice in Computing Points, Using the Default Total Points Equation
Weekly Scoring Worksheet
Weekly Scoring Worksheet Using a Total Points Equation
Total Points Week-by-Week
Graphing Activities
Graphing
Circle Graphs
Stacked-Bar and Multiple-Line Graphs
Stacked-Bar Graph
Multiple-Line Graph
Practice Worksheets
Number Sense
Rounding Whole Numbers and Expanded Notation
Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor
Operations with Whole Numbers
Equivalent Fractions
Patterns and Multiples
Ordering Fractions and Decimals
Rounding Decimals
Improper Fractions, Mixed Numbers, and Reciprocals
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Stacked-Bar Graph
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Rounding Fractions
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
Unit Rates
Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
Ratios
Percentage of Price Increase and Decrease
Finding a Percentage of a Number
Proportions
Ratios and Proportions
Factoring
Interest, Depreciation, and Tax
Prime Factorization
Scientific Notation
Ordering Integers, Fractions, and Decimals
Operations with Integers
Permutations and Combinations
Algebra and Functions
Unit Conversions
Evaluating Algebraic Expressions
Properties of Mathematics
Graphing on a Number Line
Linear Equations (A)
Linear Equations (B)
Measurement and Geometry
Area and Perimeter of Rectangles
Golden Rectangles
Functions
Area and Circumference of Circles
Weight
The Pythagorean Theorem
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
Mean, Median, Mode, Range
Probability
Circle Graphs
Stem-and-Leaf Plots and Histograms
Scatter Plots
Box-and-Whisker Plots
Mathematical Reasoning
Statements Using Math Terminology
Extra Credit
Extra Credit Worksheet: Extra Credit Problems
Assessment
Pretest/Posttest