Explanations / Diagrams of Geometry in Basketball
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In the basketball movie 'Like Mike' Tracey Reynolds helps Calvin Cambridge understand geometry through basketball offensive plays by super sizing triangles seeing an Isosceles, Equilateral and Acute triangle in the basketball context. As geometry is one of many forms of mathematics, the following video helps example how geometry is used in basketball offensive plays to isolate a player for a shot, give all players an equal opportunity to score or allow a players to shot from an angle less than 90 degrees to the ring.
Picture Reference: (Reys, Lindquist, Lambdin, Smith, Rogers, Falle, Frid & Bennett, 2012, p.p.387). |