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Football Scores
 


Activity Overview

Students learn to determine the possible combinations of score events to reach a specific score in a football game.

Before the Activity

  • See the attached PDF file for detailed instructions for this activity
  • Print pages 30 - 35 from the attached PDF file for your class
  • Review the four steps of problem solving with the students

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    		During the Activity

    		Distribute the pages to the class.

    Follow the activity procedures:
  • Understand how points are scored in a football game
  • Read the problem statement
  • Create a plan to show different ways a team can score 77 points
  • Find the combinations of point values that can be used to reach 77 points
  • Compare the numbers used and discuss the reasonableness of the results
  • Create a poster showing the different ways the football team scores points


    • Using parentheses
  • Use parentheses to keep the all the calculations in order and solve the problem using the calculator

    		After the Activity

    		Students examine the various solutions presented.

  • Review student results
  • As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
  • Re-teach concepts as necessary

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    Subject Area:
    Math : Elementary Math : Math and Literature
    Math : Middle Grades Math : Problem Solving
    Math : Middle Grades Math : Measurement

    Author:
    Texas Instruments

    Level:
    5-8, K-4

    Activity Time:
    60 Minutes

    Device:
    TI-15 Explorer™

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    Other:
    This is Activity 5 from the EXPLORATIONS Book:
    A World of Mathematics: Activities for Grades 4, 5, and 6 Using the TI-15

    The following materials are required for this activity:

  • Miss Nelson Has a Field Day by Harry Allard and James Marshall, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1985
  • Sports section of a newspaper showing football scores
  • Chart paper
  • Paper, pencils


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