Proposed Curriculum: Math, Science and Sports Hunter and Aaron Education 200 ‘06 Spring Curriculum Project Trinity College

Topic Learning mathematical and scientific concepts through the aid of sports

Context Relates to both boys and girls “Real-life” context for course study Specific course topics Relates social aspects to course study

Objectives: Math Students will understand the meanings of mean, median, mode, range, ratio and percentage Students will be capable of calculating the mean, median, mode, range, ratio and percentage from a collection of numbers

Objectives: Science Students will understand the definition, characteristics and applications of force and basic physics Students will also become more comfortable using the scientific method

Objectives: Social Aspects Students will understand the difficulty of pursuing an athletic career and acquire a greater value for higher education as an opener of opportunity

Activities: Math Students will record the mean, median, mode and range from the box scores from sports section Students will determine the ratio of points scored between the highest and lowest point scorers

Activities: Math (cont.) Each student will be required to choose their favorite NBA player, look up his stats online and calculate his field goal percentage and his free throw shooting percentage

Activities: Science Students will drop a baseball and a basketball simultaneously and observe the bounce height of each ball, recording the results Students will replicate first experiment, but instead they will place the baseball on top of the basketball

Activities: Social Aspect Guest speaker, from a local college or professional sports team, will come speak to the students

Goals of Activities Students become more comfortable applying new knowledge of major statistical concepts (averages, mean, etc.) Students understand the properties of force Students acknowledge the difficulties in pursuing a professional career in athletics

Resources Gardener and Bloom – Multiple intelligences – Levels of understanding

Assessment Game of Jeopardy

Monday Teacher will start class with brief lesson on mean, median, mode, range and ratio (15 min.) Students will work together in groups of 4 to record the statistical data for various NBA/WNBA team’s results (15 min.) Students will also find the ratio of points scored to that of the ‘highest scorer’ compared to ‘lowest scorer’ (5 min.)

Tuesday Each student will bring in their favorite player’s stats from an online or newspaper source The teacher will start class with a brief 15 minute lesson on how to calculate percentages and then move the class to the computer lab The students will then calculate field goal percentages and free throw percentages as different groups of 4 (15 min.)

Wednesday Review of material covered over past two days. (15mins) Students will be spilt into diverse groups figuring out data presented by teacher. (25mins)

Thursday The class will start with a brief review of the concepts examined earlier in the week (10 min.) Statistical problems will be presented on the board for the students to figure out. Students will engaged in an intellectual conversation with a guest student athlete.

Friday Jeopardy (all class) The students will separate into 4 teams and will compete against one another. The teams will compete with one another as one member from each team will go select a subject for a competing team to answer. The competing team will then work together as a group and have 45 seconds to answer the question. If they answer the question correctly they will be rewarded with a point and select a question for the next team to get. If the team either gets the answer incorrect or not done in the given time period it is a free question and the other three teams will be able to “steal” the points for themselves.