On my windowsill, I bent a piece of rubber into a sine curve. Or a cosine curve. I guess I should have included some axes.
Sports
Penalty Kicks
This article in the New York Times discusses some interesting facts about penalty kick success rates in soccer:
It’s not that shocking that penalty kick success rates drop on successive kicks–as in a shootout. However, it is quite interesting that penalty kicks are far more successful when success means an immediate win than when failure means an immediate loss.
Definitely some interesting psychological analysis to be done here.
Challenge NYT Sports
Numbers in the News Quiz — World Cup
Through Math for America I have been contributing to the New York Times Learning Network. Here is a World Cup-themed math quiz I put together with a colleague, Gary Rubinstein:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/numbers-in-the-news-world-cup/
In addition, I also suggested some ideas for World Cup-themed math instruction:
Check out my other contributions here.
Challenge Economics NYT
Numbers in the News Quiz
Through Math for America I am contributing math-related content to the New York Times Learning Network.
Here is my first contribution: a 5-question math quiz based on the Greek financial crisis.
You can see all my contributions here.