fantasy sports meets math class

This is is a brilliant idea. I once taught a summer science class to a group of 5th and 6th graders, and was constantly racking my brain for ways to relate the class material to their everyday lives.

I haven't played fantasy football in two years now (the managers in my league were super hardcore and keeping up meant that I was checking fantasy news several times a day), but during the years that I did play, I was constantly calculating and recalculating scores on game day. I'm sure a creative teacher could come up with some kind of math-related ranking scheme too; there are some pretty complicated spreadsheets out there for evaluating fantasy players.

book reviews

A couple of months ago I decided I was going to try and review books. I read several books, and even started writing about a few of them. I wrote a couple of paragraphs about When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe, a WWII novel set in the Philippines. I quite liked the book, and was able to describe why, but got stuck on finding concrete examples from the book. I think it reminded me too much of high school English.

I'm thinking maybe I should review something else, like movies, or restaurants, which would feel less like work. I like reading a lot, but I've always been less fond of analyzing books.