The NFL Math Project
$8.00
Engage your students with this real world application of math! Students will use real NFL football data to explore fractions, decimals, statistics, graphing, expressions, equations, coordinate grid, and problem solving. Writing is also integrated, as the culminating task has students writing a letter to the NFL coaches explaining their analysis of the team based on the season’s data!
| Subject | Grade Levels | Resource Type | File Type |
| Math, Problem Solving, Fractions, Decimals, Graphing, Coordinate Grid, Equations | 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th | Activities, Math Project, Distance Learning | PDF 35 pages |
Description
Let your students “play fantasy football” as they practice their math skills in this engaging NFL Math Project! Students “draft” a football team and use real statistics each week to solve problems. This project is packed with 35 pages of math fun for students! A PDF of slides to explain the project is included too! Students can complete this project in class, at home on distance learning or homeschool.
This resource contains:
- Teacher directions
- Student directions
- List of NFL teams with logos
- Spreadsheet to keep track of students’ team choices
- Student spreadsheet for data
- Grid for graphing data
- 17 activity sheets (1 for each week of the regular football season)
- Answer key for activity sheets
- Student direction sheet about culminating task
- Document of each team’s address to mail letters
- Project Rubric
- “What I learned from my classmates” document
*Note: If the NFL season is cancelled this year due to covid, students can use last year’s data, which is also stored on nfl.com website.
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