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Why I Chose This Career:i choose this career because i like it and i like to play the game Skills Required: 1. Dribbling - is important to penetrate to the hoop, move the ball across the court, get away from the defense, and find a good passing lane. There are different types of dribbles:

• change-of-pace, • crossover dribble, • behind the back, • pull back dribble, • low dribble, • basic dribble, • between the legs dribble

2. Passing - A good offensive attack requires good passing from players. This helps find an open man, to find a good shooter or to get away from a defender. There are several types of passes you need to learn:

• Overhead Pass • Chest Pass • Push Pass • Baseball Pass • Off-the-Dribble Pass • Bounce Pass

3. Shooting - The object of the game is to win by scoring the most points. Therefore, improving the team's shooting is important to win a game. There are several ways to score in the game:

• Jump Shot • Dunk • Alley oop • Free throw • Layup • Three-Point Shot • Hook Shot

4. Rebounding - is essential to gain or regain possession after the shot. Usually, the team who has the most number of rebounds after the game has more shot attempts and chances to score.

5. Offense - is the only chance that the team has a shot at the basket and scoring. Playing a good offense requires coordination among players and individual skill to execute well plays.

6. Defense - To be able to get a chance to score and gain possession, the team should play good defense and try to stop their opponent from scoring. As said, "A good defense is a good offense."

7. Moves - There are different kinds of basketball moves that are important in executing both a good offense and a good defense. Moves are helpful in finding an open man, make a good shot or create an amazing play.

8. Violations - Knowing the kinds of basketball violations improves your game.

9. Assist - is given to a teammate to help him score easily. Thus is it important to find an open man on the court

10. Foul - is often an accidental contact made by the defender to his opponent or an aggressive move by the ball-handler towards his defender. However, a foul is also used as a strategy to stop the clock or to keep the shooting player from scoring easily. Learning how to use your fouls well is important in the game Education Required: one year in collage Math Used in Career: Basketball is a game that uses many different types of math. Basketball is played on a rectangular court and made up of two five player teams. Two guards, two forwards, and one center make up the five players on each team. All five players play offense as well as defense. In Professional Basketball a game lasts for 48 minutes which is broken up into four quarters. 48 divided by 4 = 12, therefore each quarter lasts 12 minutes. Which ever team has the most points at the end of the game is the winner. When a game is tied after regulation time has ended, the teams play overtime periods until one team ends an overtime period with more points and is therefore the winner. There are two ways an offensive team can score points. The first way to score is to make a basket, which is worth 2 or 3 points, depending on the distance of the shot. The second way to score is a foul shot, also called a free throw.

Every foul shot is taken from what is called the "free throw" line. The free throw line is 15 feet away from the basket which is also equal to 4.6 meters. The free throw is worth one point. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has teams from two countries, the United States and Canada. In total there are 30 NBA teams but they divided into two different conferences, the Eastern and Western. Each conference is made up of three different divisions. Although only five players are allowed from each team on the court at a time, there are 12 players on the roster at all times. There are 82 scheduled games in a regular season. When the NBA season ends in April 8 teams from each conference will be qualified for the playoffs and since there are 2 conferences, 8 x 2 = 16. So, 16 teams would then qualify. These games are broken down into what is called "series" and each series is won by which ever team wins the most out of seven. This means that whichever team wins 4 games first are the champions of the conference. Finally a champion team from each conference meets to play 7 more games. Remember, there are two conferences, Eastern and Western. The first to win 4 games out of 7 are the NBA Champions. Basketball can be used to show many types of mathematical procedures that include identifying geometric shapes, choosing the right display of data and to interpret that data, the ability to predict outcomes, the ability to construct tally charts, scatter plots, and bar graphs, and finally the ability to change fractions to percents. The fact is that math is all around you every day and people use math without even realizing that they are doing so. In basketball math is used to keep score, of course that is the most obvious. Math is used to count how many people are playing, how many feet up the hoop is, how many feet players can jump, the circumference of the hoop and the measurement of the ball, which by the way are all very important parts of the game of basketball.

Take out the sports section and go to the pages on basketball. Look at a game with a box score. A box score will list all the players on the team and the points they scored. The box score can be put into a list to calculate mean, mode, median, and range. So as you can see there are various types of mathematical calculations that are used in the game of basketball and most of them are just second nature for most. Maybe that is why they seem so simple when applied to basketball, because you never thought of it in terms of math. Resources: [] []