Discusses the history of sports, different types, and the Olympics, and explains how to create and interpret the charts, tables, and graphs used to display different types of information about sports and athletes.
Presents over twenty reproducible activity sheets designed to help students in grades four through eight hone their skills in interpreting and creating graphs, charts, maps, and tables.
From three prominent educators and athletes comes this important new sourcebook on teaching the skills that will enable both children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness to participate in physical education, recreation, sports, and lifelong health and fitness activities.Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness includes methods of modifying physical skills instruction; techniques for adapting sports and other physical activities; teaching methods and curriculum points for physical skills instruction throughout the lifespan; and information about sports and related activities, providing rules, adaptations, and information about competition options. It is an ideal manual for physical educators, adapted physical education specialists, teachers of students with visual impairments, orientation and mobility specialists, occupational and recreational therapists, and anyone else interested in sports and recreation for persons who are visually impaired or deafblind.
Discusses types of government, international organizations, and global politics, and explains how to create and interpret the charts, tables, and graphs used to display different types of information about global politics.
Discusses where crime occurs, types of crime, and how crimes are tried and punished, and explains how to create and interpret the charts, tables, and graphs used to display different types of information about crime and criminals.
Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling: The Games People Play, Second Edition demonstrates how discrete probability, statistics, and elementary discrete mathematics are used in games, sports, and gambling situations. With emphasis on mathematical thinking and problem solving, the text draws on numerous examples, questions, and problems to expla
Designed to introduce readers to how graphs tell stories. Readers will see bar, line, pie, and pictographs, as well as tally charts, and be encouraged to read the stories graphs tell and create their own stories. Activities build on the material presented.