Ravenwood - 05/25/05 06:15 AM
North Carolina seventh-graders were given a math problem on a state exam that asked them to calculate the average gain for a football team on their first six plays. The plays were a 6-yard loss, a 3-yard gain, a 2-yard loss, a 7-yard gain, a 12-yard gain, and a 4-yard gain.
The 12-yard gain apparently came on 5th down and 7 yards to go. State officials were defiant.
Mildred Bazemore, chief of the state Department of Public Instruction's test development section, said the question makes sense mathematically and was reviewed thoroughly.So if it was 75-degrees today, and only 25-degrees yesterday, how many times warmer was it today than yesterday?"It has nothing to do with football," Bazemore said. "It has to do with the mathematical concepts that you're studying."
Disclaimer: I'm somewhat football illiterate.
I'm pretty sure I've heard commentators talk about a team's average gain for an entire game and you know they didn't keep the ball the whole time. Unless there was more to the question, it didn't say their first 6 plays were while retaining possession. Someone just wants to score news points.
Posted by: GunGeek at May 25, 2005 12:14 PM"The 12-yard gain apparently came on 5th down and 7 yards to go."
I'm still laughing over this one several hours later.
Posted by: Steve Scudder at May 25, 2005 3:51 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
