Seventh graders use the internet to investigate the salaries of professional football players. They calculate how much the top five paid athletes in football earn for one game and for one minute of playing time. Students determine the...

Students listen to parent speakers who discuss how they use math in their professional or personal lives. They take notes and write business form thank you letters.

Eighth graders discover the important role statistics play in sports and that appropriate data must be collected to do a statistical analysis. Students practice calculating statistics by charting a professional player of their choice.

Explore the key elements of a contract with your young adults, and delve into the features and unique benefits of a rent-to-own contract through discussion and worksheet practice. 

Students practice the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics on baseball cards. In this baseball math lesson, students use fractions and estimation to calculate statistics. Students calculate batting...

Pupils solve problems using the opposite, reciprocal and powers. For this algebra lesson, students solve problems with inequalities and absolute values. They show understanding of the basic content of math in this lesson.

Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.

In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders track information relating to a sporting event and create a spreadsheet and appropriate formulas used to track data.  The one page worksheet contains the assignment and...