This book, for students in grades 4-8, focuses on the NCAA championship seasons of the UCLA and Duke University basketball teams. It contains routine and nonroutine problems as well as mini-projects and long-term projects, all of which will help students become familiar with problem-solving techniques. My students enjoyed the activities and were excited to learn about UCLA's NCAA record of twelve appearances in the FInal Four and ten championships. Many students are interested in basketball, and this interest will help them better understand the mathematics concepts behind the sport. The book's weaknesses included typographical errors and mistakes in the answer key. To solve many of the problems, my fourth graders needed to use their calculators, because many numbers were too large for them to compute on their own. On the other hand, the fact that they were able to use their calculators for some activity pages is exactly why some students enjoyed them. I would not purchase this book unless I had a class that really liked basketball or unless I could use outside resources to help teach it. This would be a good book for fifth or sixth graders. In my opinion, it is too difficult for the average fourth grader, although it could be used to challenge some above-average fourth graders.

Got game? This book does. The activities have students collecting data,, developing statistics, preparing field goal percentages, constructing a shooting chart, figuring point differentials, and otherwise using math to become basketball experts!