This is a variety of word problems using data taken from the 2014 NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball tournament. There is a set of problems each for Grades 3, 4, and 5. Solutions are included, as is a Smartboard 10 file for each set of problems.
They use scoring, playing time, and attendance data for the UConn teams (since I teach in Connecticut), but there’s no partisan content to them.
Each grade level’s problems begin with 1-2 pages of scoring and attendance data which students need to