Needing Help From Sports-minded People
I'm creating a special project for my students. I need some additional help from anyone out there that enjoys sports (watching or playing), physical education and/or health. I'm somewhat limited in this area. So if you could spare a few minutes, please click here:
At my current school, we have something called Intersession. During the first three weeks of January, normal school classes are canceled and the time is spent in one particular topic. Each teacher creates a curriculum for those three weeks and the 7th-11th graders get to pick which topic they would like to study. It's an immersion course similar to a May Module or mini-mester course in college. We have five full time teachers and each one has to plan and lead the topics. The other four teachers are doing the following topics: "Interfaith: A Search for G-d," "Spanish Heritage of Puerto Rico," "Endangered Animals/Baja Trip," and "Kenya Trip."
My Intersession course will be the "Mathematics of Sports and Games." Each day we will be doing an in-depth study of the underlying math behind different sports (competitive and noncompetitive), games and other physical activities. Some days we'll get to play some of the games, take field trips and things like that.
What I've planned out so far are: baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, football, extreme sports (ski diving, motorcycling jumping, etc), scuba diving, hiking, pool (billards), darts, card games and dice games.
Some of the activities we'll be doing: 1) one morning they will be learning about the geometry behind playing pool and then in the afternoon we are going to test out the math on a pool table. 2 ) another day, we will be studying initial velocity and serving angles in volleyball using parametric functions in a calculator (fun stuff... I promise). 3) another day, we will be talking about hiking and calculating stride length and other things; then taking a ferry over to St. John and doing several of the hiking trails over there.
This is basically a math immersion course. It'll be over 6 hours of math and sports everyday for 17 days. Any ideas that you might have would be a big help. The math part I can handle but the sports I haven't got much of a clue (the last time I played a sport I ended up in the ER). I'm needing help on coming up with true sports-related math problems. The problems can relate to any math concept, such as, geometry, probability, statistics, precalculus, etc. The problems can also include interdisciplinary things like science (physics, biology, etc.), humanities, nutrition or any other subject.
I have had a lot of students express interest in doing my intersession option. But I'll only be able to have a hand full of students (8-10). I feel that the students that I will have will be bright enough to handle any math topic up until calculus.
If you have any ideas on these sports or any new suggestions, please email me at vertleo318@yahoo.com. If you are really interested, I can email you a more detail outline of what I have planned out so far. Just let me know. Thank you for your time!
At my current school, we have something called Intersession. During the first three weeks of January, normal school classes are canceled and the time is spent in one particular topic. Each teacher creates a curriculum for those three weeks and the 7th-11th graders get to pick which topic they would like to study. It's an immersion course similar to a May Module or mini-mester course in college. We have five full time teachers and each one has to plan and lead the topics. The other four teachers are doing the following topics: "Interfaith: A Search for G-d," "Spanish Heritage of Puerto Rico," "Endangered Animals/Baja Trip," and "Kenya Trip."
My Intersession course will be the "Mathematics of Sports and Games." Each day we will be doing an in-depth study of the underlying math behind different sports (competitive and noncompetitive), games and other physical activities. Some days we'll get to play some of the games, take field trips and things like that.
What I've planned out so far are: baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, football, extreme sports (ski diving, motorcycling jumping, etc), scuba diving, hiking, pool (billards), darts, card games and dice games.
Some of the activities we'll be doing: 1) one morning they will be learning about the geometry behind playing pool and then in the afternoon we are going to test out the math on a pool table. 2 ) another day, we will be studying initial velocity and serving angles in volleyball using parametric functions in a calculator (fun stuff... I promise). 3) another day, we will be talking about hiking and calculating stride length and other things; then taking a ferry over to St. John and doing several of the hiking trails over there.
This is basically a math immersion course. It'll be over 6 hours of math and sports everyday for 17 days. Any ideas that you might have would be a big help. The math part I can handle but the sports I haven't got much of a clue (the last time I played a sport I ended up in the ER). I'm needing help on coming up with true sports-related math problems. The problems can relate to any math concept, such as, geometry, probability, statistics, precalculus, etc. The problems can also include interdisciplinary things like science (physics, biology, etc.), humanities, nutrition or any other subject.
I have had a lot of students express interest in doing my intersession option. But I'll only be able to have a hand full of students (8-10). I feel that the students that I will have will be bright enough to handle any math topic up until calculus.
If you have any ideas on these sports or any new suggestions, please email me at vertleo318@yahoo.com. If you are really interested, I can email you a more detail outline of what I have planned out so far. Just let me know. Thank you for your time!