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ERIC Number: EJ588599
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
The Big Loser.
Marks, Daniel
Mathematics Teacher, v92 n3 p208-13 Mar 1999
Presents an activity in which the subject is the identity of the team in the greatest jeopardy of becoming the big loser in a basketball tournament. Explores several facts about the big loser, offering them in a hierarchy appropriate for creating various short- and long-term projects for a high school mathematics class. (ASK)
Descriptors: Basketball, High Schools, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Probability, Secondary School Mathematics
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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