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Using Football Stats to Teach Math

Fantasy Football is a game where players pick their teams, decide their starting lineups and compete with other players using weekly statistics from real games.

Dan Flockhart has developed a way to use this game to help students learn math.

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How it works

Kids Playing FootballStudents start by drafting their team. One option involves having a salary cap. This forces the students to make decisions based on a limited amount of money. Students also have to decide a starting lineup.

Students then collect data from newspapers and/or the internet and calculate their weekly score based on an algebraic formula. Based on the level of the students, there are 111 different formulas you can use.

Finally, students are allowed to make trades based on certain rules.

I wish they had done this when I was in school....

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Meet Dan Flockhart and see how he thought of Fantasy Football and Mathematics. See how other teachers have used the program in their classes including an elementary school in New Jersey and a high school in San Jose, CA.
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I am always looking for ways to make math more relevant for my students.  Fantasy football looks like a very promising resource.

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