Introduction – Task – Process – Evaluation - Conclusion

Introduction

· Recently many teams have begun to change their uniforms and official logos in order to make their teams more modern and to give basketball a new look. The Maloof brothers have decided to join this trend and create something totally new for basketball.

· The very first game played in the NBA was on Nov. 1, 1946 between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers. For the 60^th anniversary of the beginning of NBA basketball, the Maloofs have decided to come up with a new basketball court that will revolutionize the sport. These brothers really like math and have decided to incorporate their favorite shapes into the new design of the basketball court. Thee shapes are circles, squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and triangles.

Task

· The maloof brothers have decided to come up with a team of designers (you) to create a new basketball court. Every basketball player will have to use this new court. Therefore, the Maloofs have recruited five top players to set regulations on the building of the court and overall layout of this new basketball court. These five players will be Predrag Stojakovic, Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, Mike Bibby, and Tim Duncan. Your job is to creat a design for the new basketball of the 21^st century.

Process

These are the steps that you will need to follow to successfully build your new

basketball court.

1. Analyze the desires and wants of all of the parties involved: the Maloofs, the NBA players. When analyzing this we will need to examine the players that we have chosen to be on this team, we need to examine their strengths and weaknesses and make some assumptions of what they would like a basketball court to look like. (You will need to find the information about the players on the internet by clicking here or here and use the information to in the chart provided below.)

2. You will have to draw a rough draft of what your floor plans will look like. You will do this on the blank sheet of white paper that will be provided for you. Your floor plans must include at least one of each of the shapes listed above or else the Maloofs will not support your plan. EVERYONE IN YOUR GROUP MUST AGREE AND PARTICIPATE IN MAKING THE FLOOR PLANS!!!!! You may use the dimensions of a regulation basketball court as a reference by clicking here.

3. After the rough draft of the floor plan the builders need to know exactly you want this court to be built, they will need to know the dimensions of all of the shapes that you have placed on your court. They will need to know the area of all the shapes in order to build this court correctly. Therefore we need to determine the area and dimensions of all of the shapes that you have placed on your court. You will list these dimensions and the area of the dimensions on the rough draft of your floor plans. In order to find out how to find the dimensions of our various shapes click here.

4. You are now at the final step, you team will now have to transfer this rough draft onto poster paper which will be provided for you. Your poster needs to look as neat and professional as possible. You will use rulers to draw your lines (in pencil first) and you will need to color it in a way that will be appealing to the board.

5. Since the NBA will have a new basketball court, a new basketball hoop will also be needed, design this and draw it on the poster paper next to your court.

	Shaq	Peja	Iverson	Duncan	Bibby
strengths
weaknesses
wants and desires

Evaluation

basketball project

	1	2	3	Your Score
The basketball court has all of the shapes that the Maloofs require: triangles, squares, trapezoids, circles,	group did not include any of the shapes requied by the Maloofs	group did include some of the shapes required by the Maloofs	group did include all of the shapes required by the Maloofs
The group has analyzed the desires of the vaious basketball players and used them to design their court	group did not include the wants and desires of the basketball players	group did list the wants and dersires of the basketball players but did not incorporate them into their design	group did list the wants and desires of the basketball players and did incorporate them into the design of their court.
the group has completed the rough draft of the court with the dimensions of the shapes and the area of all of the shapes	group did not complete a rough draft of the basketball court	group did complete a rough draft of the basketball court with the shapes required and their dimensions	group did complete a rough draft of the basketball court with the shapes required, listed their dimensions and found the area of all of these shapes
the final poster created by the group is neat, organized and professoinal looking	group did not complete a final poster	group did complete a final poster, but the poster was not neat, organized, nor professional looking	Group did complete a final poster that was neat, organized and professional looking.

Conclusion

· This poster will now be presented in front of the board (the classroom) and they will decide who has the best design. When you are presenting your court you must try your hardest to “sell” your idea to the board to ensure that they will vote for your design.