Basketball Math Poem

swish

Score by 2,
Score by 1,
Sometimes 3,
Shoot and run!
Has 1 ball,
Has 2 nets,
Isn’t tennis,
Has no sets…
Has a foul,
But not baseball,
10 players play,
That’s not all…
Quarters?
4!
Minutes?
12!
Shoes on court,
Squeal and delve…
Minutes pass,
48!
Swish for 3,
Doing Great!!!
Orange ball,
Pumpkin hued,
Bounced around,
Beat and bruised,
Jump shot, lay-up,
From downtown!
Basketball?
Yeah, I’m down!

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If your team scores 5 points a minute for all 48 minutes of a basketball game, how many points will your team have?

If one basketball costs $18 and a baseball costs half as much, how much does it cost to buy one basketball and one baseball?

If there are 30 basketball teams in the NBA, and each starts 5 players, how many players start?