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It's a Numbers Game! Soccer
The Sports Plus take
Soccer and math, made fun for kids.
This National Geographic Kids book shows how numbers shape the beautiful game, from how goalies use geometry to guard the net to the odds of stopping a penalty kick. It's packed with photos, trivia, graphics and an activity at the end of every chapter, and Alex Morgan writes the foreword. It completes the set with It's a Numbers Game! Baseball and Hockey on our shelves.
Shelf
How it reads
Grades 4-8
Best for
- Kids ages 8-12
- Young soccer players
- Kids who love stats
About this book
- Author
- James Buckley Jr.
- Publisher
- National Geographic Kids
- Published
- December 1, 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN-10
- 1426339232
- ISBN-13
- 978-1426339233
Book description
Grab your soccer ball and calculator and get ready to delve into the numbers and math behind the world's most popular sport.
Whether you call it soccer or football, "the beautiful game" wouldn't be the popular game it is without numbers. From the clock counting up the seconds to positioning your feet at the right angle for the perfect dribble, this book reveals the ways digits and math are part of the game. Read about soccer greats from all over the world racking up points, championships, and even Olympic medals. Learn how goalies use geometry to guard the net and check out cool graphics that show the probability that a goalie will be able to stop a penalty kick. Soccer fans everywhere will get a kick out of this number-focused look at the game, jam-packed with sports trivia, awesome photos, and fun activities at the end of every chapter.
About the author
James Buckley Jr. is the author of more than 100 books for young readers on basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and more. A former editor at Sports Illustrated and NFL Publishing, he is also the author of the top-selling annual Scholastic Year in Sports. In the non-sports world, he has written a dozen titles in the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? biography series. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he runs the Shoreline Publishing Group, a leading producer of nonfiction for kids.
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