CK-12 Foundation
Differences of Integers Using a Number Line: Football Game
Make football a math sport! Move the football player (red dot) along the sideline (number line) to see how many yards (positive and negative integers) they've traveled to the other team's end zone.
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Football Math
Develop an understanding of positive and negative numbers using football. Pupils create a football field and game pieces. The teacher gives plays and the pupils move pieces to see who wins the game.
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Soccer Football
Games like this are so much fun! It's basically a big keep-away game, but you get to score points. There are rules by which to play, so students can practice the passing and catching skills in football as much as possible in the game....
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Add Integers on a Number Line
In this adding integers on a number line practice activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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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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Real-World Positive and Negative Numbers and Zero
Class members investigate how positive and negative numbers are useful in the real world. Individuals first read a short passage and identify terms indicating positive and negative numbers. They consider situations involving positive...
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Integer Football
They could go all, the, way...to a deeper understanding of integers with this fun math game. Using the included printable materials, young mathematicians practice adding integers and calculating absolute values as they compete in a game...
Yummy Math
Deflate-gate
Does temperature affect the air pressure of a football? Young mathematicians look at the readings from a pressure gauge and determine if the balls are within regulation or are under inflated.
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Placing Negative Numbers On A Number Line
Fifth graders review the concept of negative numbers and how the are placed on a number line. After the review, 5th graders practice placing negative numbers on a number line in a whole class setting.
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Touchdown
Touchdown is a tag game built around stealth and deception. One team is given a small object that fits inside the palm of a hand. Players start at one end of the field and try to get the hidden object across the field to the other...
Illustrative Mathematics
Running on the Football Field
Make your class into Pythagorean theorem fanatics in no time. What a great resource to get your sports enthusiasts into the math game! Read the commentary so you can you can strategize how to apply the three math practices.
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Football Frenzy
Young scholars practice throwing and catching a football in a dynamic setting. The quarterbacks throw passes to their receivers. If the receiver catches a pass, then they jog back to their quarterback area and they become a quarterback.
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Football-2 Minute Drill
Students participate in two minute drills throwing and catching a football. In this football lesson, the students are divided into teams and pass the football at various distances. The students may rotate their team roles after each drill.
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Football Downs
Young scholars attempt to grasp the concept of four downs in football. They practice using predetermined cues on skills such as: Grip, passing and catching a football, routes, making and running simple plays.
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Rainy Day Football
High schoolers participate in a rainy day game to reinforce football rules.
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Football Review
Pupils review a subject and get points such as the points in football for correct and incorrect answers. In this football review lesson plan, students fill out a score board as they review.
Illustrative Mathematics
Sports Equipment Set
Many students like to play sports and the equipment that goes with it costs money. The resource sets up an inequality that gives a total amount needed to purchase the equipment and the initial amount of money already obtained. In order...
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Chance Experiments
Class members are introduced to probability using terms such as impossible, unlikely, likely, and certain. Numbers between zero and one are associated with the descriptions of probability. Pupils find the likelihood of chance experiments...
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Ten Points Football
Students practice football skills. In this sports lesson plan, students are divided into two teams, form a line, and given one football to practice throwing and catching techniques.
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Ordering Numbers
Seventh graders compare and contrast positive and negative numbers. They create a T-Chart and list real word examples of positive an negative numbers. After observing an number line and a football field, 7th graders describe the...
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Football Reading Comprehension
In this football facts activity, 3rd graders will read a passage about American football and answer eight multiple choice questions about the sport.
Mathematics Vision Project
Connecting Algebra and Geometry
Connect algebra and geometry on the coordinate plane. The eighth unit in a nine-part integrated course has pupils develop the distance formula from the Pythagorean Theorem. Scholars prove geometric theorems using coordinates including...
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Football Mania
Students practice previously- learned throwing and catching skills and offensive/defensive strategies in a game-like situation.
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Unit 13: Graphs, Correlation, Line of Best Fit
Students explore the concepts of graphs, correlations, line of best fit, and the dipstick problem. In this graph, correlation, line of best fit and dipstick problem lesson, students solve problems on the above mentioned topics. ...