Basketball: The Math of the Game (Sports Illustrated Kids: Sports Math)

by Thomas K Adamson (Author)

How far is it from the three point line to the basket? What is the difference in diameter between a basketball and the rim? How do you calculate a basketball player's field goal percentage? With every bounce of the ball and swish of the net, math makes its way to the court!
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School Library Journal

Gr 5-9—These books delve deep into the statistics of favorite pastimes. They are not written for novices; acronyms and terms are used freely and not always defined. For example, readers learn how to calculate OPS in baseball, but what does OPS stand for? What is "the lane" in basketball? The math gets complicated and in a couple of places a diagram would have been helpful. The full-color photographs depict well-known sports figures. The spreads are busy with stats, graphs, tables, and interesting sidebars. Each book discusses the field or court, the basics of the game, the offensive and defensive stats, and how to make projections of performance for teams and individual players. Overall these books will appeal to serious sports fans who want to learn more about the numbers of the game.

Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781429673174
Lexile Measure
910
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication date
July 01, 2011
Series
Sports Illustrated Kids: Sports Math
BISAC categories
SPO003000 - Sports & Recreation | Baseball | General
Library of Congress categories
Basketball
Mathematics

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