The Super Bowl. is just around the corner, on February 7, 2021, in sunny Tampa Bay Florida. Most students will look at you strangely when you comment there is lots of math one can do on the Super Bowl. One place that has tons of possibilities is at Yummy Math with at least 9 different activities.
Two of the activities focus on the amount companies pay for a 30 second commercial. In 2019, the average 30 second commercial cost $5.35 million which could be expressed in scientific notation. One of the activities has students use scientific notation for the cost while a second activity looks at the increasing cost of a 30 second commercial over the years.
Then there is an activity which looks at the typical Super Bowl scores over the years. The activity requires students to use the mean, mode, median and range to compare scores and see how things change when one switches from mean to median to mode. It has students look at 10 years worth of data during the comparison.
Another activity looks at how much grease Philadelphia had to use in order to grease city light poles so they could keep fans from climbing to the tops in 2018. Students are required to estimate, calculate, read maps, and use several other skills to come up with answers. Think about this, if one quart of paint covers a 100 foot area while 1 tblsp of Crisco covers 9 inches square.
Other activities include having students estimate and then figure out how many chicken wings, sauce, and carrots the Buffalo Bills sent to the Bengals after the game, calculating the amount of cheese needed to make cheesy poppers for superbowl sunday or students have to calculate the best buy for a large screen television so they can watch the game. There is also an activity which focuses on helping students become more fluent with Roman numerals since all games include Roman numerals.
There are enough exercises to do a full week's worth of activities leading into Super Bowl Sunday. Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear. Have a great day.
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