Numeracy in Sport - Season 1

Season 1
Episodes

Football: Penalty Maths
This video explains how to use mathematics to determine the distance and height a goalie needs to cover, and how fast they need to move, in order to save a goal.

Basketball: Hoops and Stats
This video explains how to calculate the goal-shooting accuracy of an individual player using percentages and how to use mean and median to measure the overall performance of a whole team.

Tennis: Grand Slam Maths
This video explains how tennis tournaments are structured using indices and how schedulers use tree diagrams to make sure seeded players only meet each other in the final rounds.

Straight Line Sprinting
This video explains how to use graphs to assess a runner's performance and improvement over time and how to figure out their speed during a sprint with simple calculations.

Straight Line Sprinting
This episode explains how to use graphs to assess a runner's performance and improvement over time and how to figure out their speed during a sprint with simple calculations.
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