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Basketball Bracket: Inputs and Outcomes

Analyze basketball tournament rules, score records, and graphs to understand functions and their input-output pairs.

Grade 8MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to8.F.A.1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 8
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students determine whether tournament rules assign exactly one output to each input.
  • Students interpret and graph functions as sets of input-output pairs.
  • Students distinguish shared outputs from conflicting outputs.

How to use

Use after introducing inputs and outputs. Have students identify the input in each task before answering, then discuss the final reasoning question.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

8.F.A.1

Understand a function as a rule giving exactly one output for each input, with its graph as the set of input-output pairs.

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Basketball Bracket: Inputs and Outcomes

Test tournament rules and connect them to their input-output graphs.

Bracket Rules

A function assigns exactly one output to each allowed input. Use the stated input and output for each rule.

Youth Tournament Advancement
Completed gameWinning teamNext game
11Harbor25
12Juniper25
13Maple26
14Cedar26
1.
A bracket rule takes a completed game number as input and gives its winner's next game number as output. Why does the table define a function?
  • A. Every output appears in exactly two rows.
  • B. Every output is greater than its paired input.
  • C. Every next game has two different winners.
  • D. Every completed game has exactly one next game.
2.
Now use next game number as input and an advancing team's name as output. Select every input that is paired with two different outputs in the table.

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