In turn, this activity leads to rich conversation about probability, differences in scores, distance between cities, and much more.īut of all our fantasy sports activities, my students' favorite sports integration has to be talking about football playoffs. Once you start incorporating sports-related math into your classroom, you'll find that math is a huge part of sports.ĭuring March, my classroom always creates brackets for college basketball playoffs. To help students connect to math, I model data collection, mathematical operations, and reasoning-and the kids love trying to beat my team. We love baseball in my town! To tie into that passion, each year my students and I build our own fantasy baseball teams. Read More: Real World Math: 6 Everyday Examples Finding the math in sports
Here are five ways to jumpstart those connections by using real-world math in the classroom. Otherwise, they may feel like they’re only learning abstract concepts.
When I was a student, my most impactful lessons asked me to use math rather than just do math.įor students, real-world connections are important in the math classroom.
When you were a student in math class, how many times did you ask yourself, "When will I ever use this?" Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual author and may not necessarily reflect the official opinion of Imagine Learning. Imagine Learning occasionally publishes guest posts about K12 educational topics from across the country. A guest post by Lori Breyfogle, K-6 Elementary Math Specialist, Missouri
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