Monday, April 26, 2010
Problem of the Day: April 26, 2010
As the Beijing Olympics ended, it also marked the end of baseball and softball as Olympic medal sports. Although the two sports won’t be on the Olympic schedule for the 2012 Games in London, they won’t be alone. Throughout the years the IOC has slashed a number of sports from the official Olympic program. Name two of the 12 sports cut from the Olympics.
Problems of the Day from last week
Some students had trouble accessing the website last week, so they are included in the blog.
April 23, 2010
While we need to improve our pitching, the Orioles also have a weakness in hitting.
Currently, the O’s are 26th out of 30 major league baseball teams in batting average. If the team has 122 hits in 542 at bats, what is the team batting average?
No problems for April 22, 2010. This problem is worth 20 points altogether!
April 21, 2010
These eleven baseball players are often considered the greatest hitters of all time.
1. Copy and paste the chart into Excel. Change the font color to black if necessary.
2. Calculate the batting averages of the players.
3. Calculate the “Little Slugging Factor”. This is found my multiplying the batting average × RBIs × Home runs ÷ 100000
4. Sort the players by “Little Slugging Factor”. Email me your spreadsheet.
5. DOUBLE BONUS! Find another player, either current or recently retired, that has a high enough LSF to make the top five on this list and prove it in your spreadsheet.
Player: Games, At Bats, Hits, Runs Batted In (RBI), Home Runs
Hank Aaron 3298 12364 3771 2297 755
Rod Carew 2469 9315 3053 1015 92
Ty Cobb 3034 11429 4191 1961 118
Lou Gehrig 2164 8001 2721 1990 493
Rogers Hornsby 2259 8173 2930 1584 301
Reggie Jackson 2820 9864 2584 1702 563
Mickey Mantle 2401 8102 2415 1509 536
Willie Mays 2992 10881 3283 1903 660
Stan Musial 3026 10972 3630 1951 475
Babe Ruth 2503 8399 2873 2211 714
Ted Williams 2292 7706 2654 1839 521
April 23, 2010
While we need to improve our pitching, the Orioles also have a weakness in hitting.
Currently, the O’s are 26th out of 30 major league baseball teams in batting average. If the team has 122 hits in 542 at bats, what is the team batting average?
No problems for April 22, 2010. This problem is worth 20 points altogether!
April 21, 2010
These eleven baseball players are often considered the greatest hitters of all time.
1. Copy and paste the chart into Excel. Change the font color to black if necessary.
2. Calculate the batting averages of the players.
3. Calculate the “Little Slugging Factor”. This is found my multiplying the batting average × RBIs × Home runs ÷ 100000
4. Sort the players by “Little Slugging Factor”. Email me your spreadsheet.
5. DOUBLE BONUS! Find another player, either current or recently retired, that has a high enough LSF to make the top five on this list and prove it in your spreadsheet.
Player: Games, At Bats, Hits, Runs Batted In (RBI), Home Runs
Hank Aaron 3298 12364 3771 2297 755
Rod Carew 2469 9315 3053 1015 92
Ty Cobb 3034 11429 4191 1961 118
Lou Gehrig 2164 8001 2721 1990 493
Rogers Hornsby 2259 8173 2930 1584 301
Reggie Jackson 2820 9864 2584 1702 563
Mickey Mantle 2401 8102 2415 1509 536
Willie Mays 2992 10881 3283 1903 660
Stan Musial 3026 10972 3630 1951 475
Babe Ruth 2503 8399 2873 2211 714
Ted Williams 2292 7706 2654 1839 521
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Math Awareness Month
April is Math Awareness Month, and this year's theme is sports. Students are completing daily problems based on this theme at http://calvertschoolweb.org/wlittle/math_Awareness_Month_2010_DailyProblems.htm. The students are also completing specially designed activities in math class. These activites connect mathematics with one of their either history or English, and tie into the theme of Math and Sports. These can be viewed at http://calvertschoolweb.org/wlittle/Math_awareness_month_2010.htm.
MathCounts Competition
Calvert School's MathCounts team competed in February against schools from all over the Baltimore Metro and Chesapeake Bay areas. While we did not place in the top 6 this year, I am still proud of our team. The students who completed include Giorgio Caturegli, Dale Waters (top scoring team member!), Eddie Van Dyke, Alice White, Kendall Reitz, and Anna Dorsey.
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