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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"The soccer player smacks the ball with the inside of their foot, sending it spinning toward its target. It curves around the goalie and into the top corner of the net. Goal! Any good soccer player needs skill, practice, and a little bit of STEM. Explore the science, technology, engineering, and math behind the game of soccer. Sports and STEM? Score!"--
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Soccer may be considered a low-scoring sport by some, but learning its intricacies allows readers to see the world of math that is hidden inside what is known as The Beautiful Game. Readers will learn basics like goals and assists as well as higher numbers like caps. They'll even learn how league standings work, and how more complex equations like goal differential can sometimes determine league champions.
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Soccer is the most popular sport on the planet, and this book has all the statistics a soccer fan could want from brilliant goals to World Cup records to legendary team performances. Learn how fans around the world use numbers to tell the stories of their favorite teams and how players use statistics to improve.
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Refresh your reader's math skills with this book. Readers will learn how to find out the perimeter of the penalty box on a soccer field, how to figure out statistics, and how many penalty shots a goalie saves on average. They will also learn about the history of the sport and math problem-solving tips.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
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Ignacio Palacios-Huerta is professor of management, economics, and strategy at the London School of Economics, and head of talent identification at Athletic Club de Bilbao, a professional soccer club in Spain.
The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behavior
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered...
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Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities...
10) A Knotty Problem
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Tensions rise between the math kids.
When Stephanie finds out her soccer team has a tournament on the same day as the district math competition, an upset Justin offers her a choice: choose Math Kids or leave the club. Dismayed by his attitude, Stephanie quits and Catherine goes with her. With their club in shambles, the future of their friendships is further threatened by the news that Justin's dad has been offered a new job and wants to move his...
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