Super Bowl Football Math - Real World Percentages and Statistics Practice
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The Math Behind Football worksheet set is a perfect way to engage your students with real-world math and a great way to celebrate the Super Bowl. Important skills will be practiced including problem-solving, calculating fractions, finding percentages, looking at statistics: calculating the mean, and analyzing data.
Looking for more football math? You might also be interested in The Math Behind the Big Game, another Super Bowl resource.
The following is included with the Math Behind Football pack:
- Football Teams by the Numbers: Table of teams with information that includes location, date of when the current team began, number of super bowl appearances and wins. *Updated August 2023 to include data from the 2023 Big Game.
- The Math Behind Football Worksheet: Students will use the table above to answer questions that include finding fractions and percentages.
- Football Stadiums Hunt: Students will look over a table of data for all football stadiums and the capacity each holds. Students will then answer questions about the largest and smallest stadiums. They will also calculate and analyze data that includes finding the mean as well as comparing capacity with the age of a stadium.
See what other teachers are saying about this resource:
- "Students enjoyed the topic, which integrated nicely with Homecoming week! Challenging enough but still fun for the kids. We all learned something!"
- "This was a fun activity that students could do while using football and applying math skills. "
- "We used this as a center activity as it was Super Bowl time. The kids enjoyed this."
You may also be interested in these other real world math resources:
Real World Math Project Investigating Jobs and Budgets
The Math Behind Holiday Shopping
The Math Behind Times Square NYE
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