How do you figure out a player's batting average? Which stadium has the biggest outfield? SCORE WITH BASEBALL MATH uses a variety of techniques to solve a variety of baseball-related math questions. Also learn some baseball history and fun facts.
Summary Guess what? Lots of math is used in sports! How many points is a field goal? What percent of quarterback passes were intercepted? Even batting averages involve fractions and decimals. So get warmed up and ready to tackle some sports word problems, which include addition, multiplication, division, subtraction, fractions, and decimals. Learn some history and stats about your favorite athletes, too! Book jacket.
Notes Stuart A.P. Murray is the author of more than forty books, a book editor, and a former journalist. He played soccer at Rutgers University and as a semi-pro, and has coached youth, high school, and college soccer. His latest fiction titles, Matty in the Goal and Todd Goes for the Goal, published by Enslow Publishers, Inc., are about youth soccer players.