NCAA Math Madness

I was still reveling in my alma mater's NCAA Championship victory over Butler earlier this month (take that Carolina!), when I came across a blog posting that had compiled a number of ways to link the tournament to math. In my Algebra II classes, I had drawn a graph of the number of teams that remained in the tournament by round, and the students make the connection between that representation, exponential decay functions and geometric series. Here's a link to some additional ways that teachers have helped turn March Madness in Math Madness.