Presentation: Making Math out of March Madness (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Regional Conference and Exposition: Louisville, Kentucky)

Friday, November 8, 2013: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Room 207/208 (Kentucky International Convention Center)

Lead Speaker:

Jennifer Axley

Co-Speaker:

Donna Talley Russell

Handouts

Session 143 Making Math Out of March Madness Axley Presentation and student pages.pdf (1.3 MB)

March is the time when basketball fans turn their thoughts to bracketology. Use the NCAA tournament's single-elimination format to examine exponential and piecewise functions. With graphing technology, model the various bracket formats used over the years—from eight to sixty-eight teams—and generate equations for those models.

Presentation Format: 6-8 Gallery Workshop
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 9 to 12

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Regional Conference and Exposition: Louisville, Kentucky

143- Making Math out of March Madness