Authentic Integration of Physical Education and Mathematics: The Geometry Racket

Abstract

This article offers a blueprint for how middle-school geometry and physical education units naturally intersect for authentic integration of both subjects. This disciplinary intersection is called the “Geometry Racket” and illustrates how mathematics knowledge provides and almost unfair advantage (i.e. racketeering) in net/wall games.

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Notes on contributors

Paul R. Malinowski

Paul R. Malinowski ([email protected]) is a graduate assistant in the Kinesiology & Health Department at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY.

Ben D. Kern

Ben D. Kern is an assistant professor in the Division of Kinesiology and Health at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY.

Melissa A. Gallagher

Melissa A. Gallagher is an assistant professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Houston in Houston, TX.

Anna Ellington

Anna Ellington is at Paul Breaux Middle School in Lafayette, LA.