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Mathematics in sport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Peter Avery
Peter Avery*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
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Illustrative examples which draw on everyday experience are particularly useful in the classroom. For this reason, sport can be a good source of examples. We present four illustrations of the ways that mathematics arises in different sports. The ideas should be understandable to those studying A-level mathematics.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 73 , Issue 463 , March 1989 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1989

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