Sunday, February 21, 2010

Every High School Needs Curling

Why should educators care about curling?  Have you seen it?  This sport was definitely invented by math geeks!  It takes an understanding of geometry, weight, angles, arcs, mass, physics - sure they get to wear track suits, but these athletes are for sure mathematicians moonlighting as Olympians.  All kidding aside, it's an interesting game of skill, strategy and yes, math.  I probably won't see another game until the next Olympics, but I'm a convert.
Every education meeting I sit in these days includes the concept of RELEVENCY for today's students - so here's our chance: every Geometry curriculum in the country should include CURLING!  With all the money spent on football teams and basketball gyms, it shouldn't be so hard to throw up a small ice rink and paint some circles, right?  If you want to reach your kinesthetic students (notoriously uninterested in math) - teach them Curling, problem solved.


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