Applied Math: Angles
Angles in sports activity set for basketball, football and hockey, where students estimate angles with referent angles, test shots and throws, and use tangent to calculate a shooting angle.
- Grades
- Grades 7–10, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Microsoft Word
- Subject
- Math, Trigonometry
- Topic
- applied math, angles in sports
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
About this resource
What's inside this resource
With this resource your students will make real-life connections between angles and different sports like basketball, hockey, and football.
This resource could be used to practice after a lesson or as an assessment.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Estimate angles using referent angles
- Calculate an angle from height and distance using the tangent ratio
- Interpret a graph to choose the best throwing angle for distance
Teaching tips
- Plan for gym or field time: the activities call for a basketball and hoop, a football, a hockey stick with a puck or ball and a net, and calculators with a tangent function.
Skills covered
- Data recording — logging makes and misses for each tested angle
- Spatial reasoning — using a rink diagram to judge scoring angles
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Referent angles
- Tangent ratio
- Angle of elevation
- Trajectory
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