science

Team Tiger

Team Tiger is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Team Tiger rather than just read about it. In short: Team Tiger is an Atlanta-based certified 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to help kids and families fight childhood obesity. The organization provides the resources, opportunity, education and support.

Key takeaways

Team Tiger belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Team Tiger to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Team Tiger from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Team Tiger is an Atlanta-based certified 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to help kids and families fight childhood obesity. The organization provides the resources, opportunity, education and support. Team Tiger is led by young founder Tiger Greene, who, as a twelve-year-old boy, weighed 250 pounds (twice the normal weight for a child his age). Tiger was bullied for his weight and had trouble with simple everyday tasks. By making lifestyle changes and learning about healthy food and exercise, Tiger lost over 60 pounds. Tiger has become a national spokesperson for this curable epidemic. He has been featured on national television programs, including: Dr. Oz, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Anderson Cooper 360, NBC and ABC affiliates and was a featured speaker at the Georgia Children's Health Alliance 'Refocus' Launch. Following his love of football, Tiger partnered with the NFL, including player Marcus Stroud. Together they started a series of fitness camps to inspire thousands of young people to lose weight and get more active. These Sacking Obesity Health & Wellness Camps are run by Team Tiger and the Marcus Stroud Charitable Foundation. Tiger Greene's Sacking Obesity: The Team Tiger Game Plan for Kids Who Want to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Win on and off the Playing Field is a book published by HarperCollins Publishers that puts the camp experience into a book. It includes menu plans, exercise routines, and inspirational stories about kids who have decided to make good choices in their lives. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012, Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia declared "Team Tiger Day" in the State of Georgia.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Team Tiger

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Team Tiger claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Team Tiger before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Team Tiger ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Team Tiger

In research: Team Tiger appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Team Tiger in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Team Tiger is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Medical and health organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state), Non-profit organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state), Obesity in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Team Tiger outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Team Tiger in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Team Tiger means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Team Tiger out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Team Tiger in simple terms?

Why does Team Tiger matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Team Tiger?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Team Tiger.