Football (American) Math Quiz
Turn touchdowns, yards, and drives into daily math practice.
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Go to Today's Question →A New Team Every Week
Every question for Football (American) — Easy, Medium, and Hard — follows the same fictional team and roster for an entire week, Sunday through Saturday. This week, questions follow the Ironwood Comets — quarterback Jake Morrison, running back Marcus Webb, wide receiver Tyler Reed, and kicker Sam Ortiz.
The next week brings a brand new team and a brand new set of players. A few reasons that matters:
- Questions feel like they're building on a storyline instead of being random, disconnected numbers.
- Coming back day after day means finding out what "your" team did next — a small hook that makes daily practice easier to stick with.
- Every team and player is fictional, so there's never any confusion with real athletes, real teams, or real statistics.
- A fresh cast each week keeps the questions feeling new, even when the underlying math skill stays the same all week.
How the Levels Work in Football (American)
Add up a running back's rushing yards across two quarters, combine a quarterback's touchdown passes from two games, or find the point difference between two teams' final scores. Football's quarter-by-quarter, drive-by-drive structure makes it a natural fit for practicing addition and subtraction.
Work out a running back's total yards from his average per carry, calculate how many points a team scored per quarter, or figure out how many points a set of field goals or touchdowns is worth. Football stats are built on rates and totals — exactly what multiplication and division are for.
Calculate a quarterback's pass completion percentage, work out what percentage of a team's points came from touchdowns versus field goals, or find the percentage increase in a player's rushing yards from one week to the next. Football broadcasts are full of percentages — completion rate, third-down conversion, red-zone efficiency — so this is where the math starts to match what real analysts actually do.
Try a Sample Question
Here's a real example from each level — try one yourself.
Marcus Webb, the Comets' running back, rushed for 45 yards in the 1st quarter and 38 yards in the 2nd quarter. How many total yards did Marcus Webb rush for in the first half?
Jake Morrison threw 3 touchdown passes, and each touchdown is worth 6 points. How many points did Jake Morrison's touchdown passes account for?
Jake Morrison attempted 20 passes and completed 15 of them. What percentage of Jake Morrison's passes were completed?
Who Is This For?
A short daily question that uses stats from a sport you actually care about, instead of a worksheet. Answer at your own level — start with Easy and work up to Hard as you get more comfortable, and see the explanation right after you answer so you know exactly why the answer is what it is.
A ready-made warm-up or homework supplement that doesn't require any setup. Three difficulty levels per sport mean you can point different students at different levels without singling anyone out, and each question comes with a written explanation, so it works as independent practice, not just something you have to walk through yourself.
See how teachers use it →A low-pressure way to keep math skills warm outside of school, in a format your kid already wants to engage with. It only takes a couple of minutes a day, there's nothing to set up or grade, and if they get one wrong the explanation walks them through it — no need for you to be the one re-teaching multiplication at the dinner table.
See how parents use it →A way to connect the stats your players already talk about — shooting percentage, yards per carry, first-serve percentage — to the math they're learning in school. Share the day's question with the team as a quick mental warm-up before or after practice, and it doubles as a light, no-pressure way to build team habits around something other than the game itself.
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