Math: Math in Basketball
![Two men stand in a basketball court where one shoots a ball at a hoop.](https://wpsu.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Math-in-basketball.jpeg)
Following a profile of Elton Brand, an accomplished basketball player who uses math in his work, students are presented with a mathematical basketball challenge. In the challenge, students focus on understanding the Big Ideas of Algebra: patterns, relationships, equivalence, and linearity; learn to use a variety of representations, including modeling with variables; build connections between numeric and algebraic expressions; and use what they have learned previously about number and operations, measurement, proportionality, and discrete mathematics as applications of algebra.