Along with suggested instructional notes each month, teachers are given a problem and asked to use it in their own classrooms and report solutions, strategies, reflections, and misconceptions to the journal audience. The winter months often keep students involved in such extracurricular activities as competing in sports, dancing, or playing a musical instrument. This set of problems involves a real-life scenario about scheduling basketball games for the local gym and offers students the opportunity to show their creativity in using elapsed time.

Contributor Notes

Jeffrey Smith, jas5331@gmail.com, is a fourth-grade teacher at Upper Allen Elementary School in Pennsylvania's Mechanicsburg Area School District. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and an avid fan of all sports. Smith enjoys traveling in his free time.

Edited by Jane Wilburne, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics and mathematics education at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Each month this section of the Problem Solvers department features a new challenge for students. Readers are encouraged to submit problems to be considered for future columns. Receipt of problems will not be acknowledged; however, those selected for publication will be credited to the author.

(Corresponding author is Smith jas5331@gmail.com)
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