Distances from to other places that the West Coast and Fremantle have to travel in order to play each alternate week. Destination from Perth travelling by air Kilometres for one way trip Ovals Perth to 2699 km MCG Perth to 3274 km SCG Perth to 3605 km Perth to Adelaide 1162 km Perth to Darwin 3649 km

Draw a line and fill in the boxes the distance from Perth. The first one has been done for you.

3649 KM

Question 1: In Round 12 Fremantle played Brisbane at The Gabba. Where is The Gabba? How far did the Fremantle players have to travel in getting to and from The Gabba?

Brisbane 7 210 km

In Round 13 Port Adelaide have to travel to Domain Stadium to play Fremantle. Where is Domain Stadium? How far will the Port Adelaide players have to travel in getting to and from Domain Stadium?

Perth 2 324 km

Question 2 A mathematical football player looked at the scoreboard and saw his team’s score of 12.9

Goals Points 12 9

He thought to himself that the 9 points could be simplified, There are 6 points to every goal. So the 9 points could be re-written as 1 goal and 3 points.

Goals Points 13 3

As a fraction 3 points is the same as ½ a goal. So he could write simplify it further and write is as 13 ½ .

Goals 13 ½

If 2 behinds is 2/6 or 1/3 and 4 behinds is 4/6 , See if you can complete the table Points 6ths 3RDS HALF 1 1/6 2 2/6 1/3 3 3/6 1/2 4 4/6 2/3 5 5/6 6 6/6

Put these scores in order from lowest score to highest score. Explain your answer.

a) 15 goals and 15 behinds b) 17 1/3 goals c) 17 goals 5 behinds d) 17 2/3 goals b) 17.2 a) 17.3 c) 17.4 d) 17.5

Question 3

In a Round 12 match Geelong scored 15 .15 and beat North Melbourne by 31 points. If North Melbourne had only 14 shots for goal, what was their total score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

How would you work out this problem?

1. Work out Geelong’s score: Geelong scored 15.15 which is 15 × 6 + 15 = 105 points.

2. Work out North Melbourne’s score: (Geelong’s score) 105 – 31 = 74 points.

3. North Melbourne scored 74 points and had 14 shots at goal- what was their goal/points split??

74 Points can be made a number of ways:

Goals & Points Working out Score Number of shots 10.14 (10x6) =60 + (14x1) = 14 74 24 11.8 (11x6) =66 + (8x1) = 8 74 19 12. 2 (12x6) = 72 + (2x1) = 2 74 14

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score : 105 – 31 = 74 15 15

(15x6) = 90 (15 x 1)= 15 Total Shots 14

How many goals Goals 14 Total Score : 105 and behinds did they kick? Behinds 2

Now try these

In Round 11 Geelong beat GWS by 10 points. Geelong scored 14.14 and GWS had 18 shots for goal. What was GWS‘s final score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score :

Total Shots

How many goals Goals 14 Total Score : and behinds did they kick? Behinds 4 Room for working out In a Round 12 game Adelaide scored 15.15 and beat West Coast by 29 points. If West Coast had 21 shots for goal, what was their final score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score :

Total Shots

How many goals Goals 11

Total Score : and behinds did they kick? Behinds 10 Room for working out

In another Round 12 game GWS scored 15.15 and beat Sydney by 42 points. If Sydney had 18 shots for goal, what was their final score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score :

Total Shots

How many goals Goals 9 Total Score : and behinds did they kick? Behinds 9 Room for working out

In another Round 12 game Carlton scored 12.6 and lost to St Kilda by 22 points. St Kilda had 25 shots for goal, what was their final score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score :

Total Shots

How many goals Goals 15 Total Score : and behinds did they kick? Behinds 10 Room for working out In the last match of Round 12 Melbourne scored 16.8 to beat Collingwood by 46 points. If Collingwood had 18 shots for goal, what was their final score? How many goals and behinds did they kick?

GOALS BEHINDS Total Score :

Total Shots

How many goals Goals 8 Total Score : and behinds did they kick? Behinds 10 Room for working out

Question 4 ‘Free kick heaven’ for the . The West Coast Eagles have been awarded the most free kicks so far in 2016. St Kilda has been given fewer free kicks than any other team.

West Coast: 261 free kicks St Kilda: 189 free kicks.

a) How many more free kicks has the Eagles received than St Kilda?

Write you answer here (show working out) 72

b) If the average size kick after the free kick was awarded is 35 metres, how many metres would the football travel for West Coast.

Write you answer here (show working out

9135m

c) How many metres for St Kilda?

Write you answer here (show working out

6615m

d) What is the difference?

Write you answer here (show working out

2520m

Question 5

After Round 12 the leading goal kicker for the is getting closer. We have added a new player into the leadership board. Anyone of four players can win.

Player Team Position Goals Behinds Sydney 1 43 28 Josh Kennedy West Coast 2 41 21 Thomas Lynch 3 39 12 Josh Jenkins Adelaide 4 37 12

NOTE: To work out the total number of points each player has kicked we need to multiply the numbers of goal by 6 and add the number of behinds. So for Lance (Buddy ) Franklin the calculation would be 43 × 6 + 28 = 286

See if you can work out the total points for the other three players:

Name Team Goals Behinds Calculation Total Lance Franklin Sydney 43 28 43×6 + 28 286 Josh Kennedy West Coast 41 21 41 x 6 +21 267 Thomas Lynch Gold Coast Suns 39 12 39 x 6 + 12 246 Josh Jenkins Adelaide 37 12 37 x 6 +12 234

NOTE: To calculate the efficiency of each player we look at the number of goals a player has kicked and divide it by the total number of shots the player has had for goal. Take for example Thomas Lynch he has scored 39 goals from 51 shots at goal. His efficiency when shooting for goal would be 39 ÷ 51 = 0.76 or 76%. I am sure most teams would like Thomas Lynch in their team.

See if you can work out the efficiency for the other three players:

Player Team Goals Behinds Total shots Calculation Efficiency Lance Franklin Sydney 43 28 71 43÷71 58% Josh Kennedy West Coast 41 21 62 41÷62 66 Thomas Lynch Gold Coast 39 12 51 39 ÷ 51 76% Suns Josh Jenkins Adelaide 37 12 49 37÷49 75.5 %

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