Mr. Salsich's Class
Third Grade Explorations in Learning
Jun
20
Mathlete Show – Graphing The World Cup
Mr. Salsich’s class has caught “World Cup Fever.” We have been reading about the event, following the results online, and using graphs to compare the different teams.
2010 World Cup logo
Here is another episode of “The Mathlete Show” all about graphs and the World Cup. The hosts for this episode are Pele, Mia Hamm, Pirlo, and Ronaldo. (This is our last Mathlete Show of the year.)
June 21st, 2010 at 3:05 am
I’m very impressed with this post! We call it soccer in New Zealand as well but some people are starting to change and call it football. We are very proud of our New Zealand, the All Whites, team who drew with Italy earlier today. Please check out our class blog if you get a chance.
http://year7and8blog.blogspot.com/
June 21st, 2010 at 5:55 am
Year 7 and 8 Blog,
Thanks for the comment. I have checked out your blog and really enjoyed the variety of posts.
Congratulations to “the All Whites” and to all of New Zealand! I watched the whole game and it was very exciting. The last 30 minutes were intense, as Italy was attacking ferociously. But The All Whites held them off and even had an attack or two of their own. What a great result!
Best of luck against Paraguay. I’ll be watching and cheering for New Zealand. (We have a big game of our own this Wednesday against Algeria.)
From,
Mr. Salsich
June 24th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Hi
I just wached your football vidio and I thought it was realy good. I thought of a question.. Why is South Africa not in your graph?
June 24th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Hi Cedar,
Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you liked the video.
To answer your question, we didn’t put South Africa in any of the graphs because they have never won the World Cup and most experts didn’t give them a good chance of winning this year. It would have been fun to graph all of the 32 countries, but we decided to just graph the ones that had already won a championship, or had a high probability of winning this one.
Are you cheering for a particular country?
-Mr. Salsich
June 27th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Dear Mr. Salsich,
Yes I did watch the US Algeria game. The thing about USA right know is that they got eliminated, Ghana beat USA 2 to 1. Well hopefully 4 years will go by quick and next thing you know, 2014 fifa World cup! Right now I’m rooting for Portugal and Argentina. Who are you rooting for?
Your student,
Sean
June 28th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Dear Sean,
Yes, it’s a bummer that the USA aren’t in the World Cup any more, but I think they are getting better each year. Who knows, maybe they can win it all in 2014!
Now I’m actually rooting for Ghana because they are the last African country in the Cup. For the semifinals I hope it is Ghana against Brazil and Spain against Argentina.
Who will you cheer for if Argentina plays Portugal?
From,
Mr. Salsich
August 31st, 2010 at 11:10 pm
really good show. Great way to show world cup wins (and present graphs).
September 15th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Dear Ronaldo,
I want spain to win The World cup
from,Sean