Althea Gibson - Athlete

Marlys Henke developed the following multicultural activity for her mathematics class:

"TENNIS - Althea Gibson

Background Information: Ms. Althea Gibson is known to all as a magnificent athlete. Even though she worked hard to obtain the title, she knew it was necessary for her to be an exceptional tennis player when she first began playing.

In 1966, Ms. Gibson was the first black woman to win at Wimbleton. She is and has been named as one of America's most outstanding athletes. She was the top-ranked woman tennis player in the country in 1957 and 1958, and the first black to achieve this honor.

Althea Gibson is the first black woman to play international tennis. Born in 1927 in South Carolina, she grew up in Harlem and began playing tennis at an early age.

Early in 1981, Leslie Allen became the first black woman since Althea Gibson to capture a major tennis tournament by winning the Avon tennis tournament in Detroit.

Problem: Before people can play tennis, someone must plan the construction of a tennis court. Here is a drawing of a tennis court with the measurements indicated in feet. How many cubic feet of asphalt would you order to make a tennis court 3 inches thick? How many cubic yards would be ordered? If you were to construct this court with an apron 10 feet wide, how many cubic yards of asphalt would you order to do the whole job?