INTRODUCTION Do athletes and coaches use math Can you play sports without doing math 8 27 FAIR PLAY BONUS POSS PERIOD 31 HOME 3 23 VISITOR
Well for one thing mathematics plays a large part in how winning is determined But in the relationship between math and sports scores are just the tip of the iceberg In fact it wouldn’t be unreasonable to say that sports are pure math Mathematics in motion in Action STEM At the end of a hockey game the winning team has a score of 7 and the losing team has a score of 4 how many points did the winning team win by Just subtract the smaller number from the larger number 7 4 3 The winning team won by 3 points 00:00 HOME VISITORS 7 4 00:00 5
Math in Baseball In 1858 a man named Henry Chadwick wrote the rule book for baseball The rules Chadwick recorded have changed slightly over the years but the game of baseball is still very much the same as it was in the 19th century Let’s take a look at how a baseball game works 6 Cooperstown New York is the location of Doubleday Field and the National Baseball Hall of Fame
in Action STEM It is believed that the first game of modern baseball was played in 1845 in Hoboken New Jersey Using that date as a starting point can you figure out how old baseball is Let’s assume that the year you are reading this book is 2014 Now all you have to do to find the answer is to subtract the smaller number from the larger number 2014 1845 169 Baseball is about 169 years old 7
