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Math Awareness Month - April, 2010
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Math Awareness Month is held each year in April, and is sponsored by the
Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. This year's
theme is Mathematics and Sports. While most people are familiar with
sports, they are not always
aware of the important role that mathematics plays in
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| A myriad of sports data
for players and teams is available from the media and the sports
world. Batting Average and Earned Run Average are common baseball stats. Most
standings include a team's Win-Loss
Percentage. There is plenty of historical data for The Olympics
and Super Bowls. The NBA Draft Lottery uses combinatorics
and probability in the selection process. We invite you to explore these
and other topics with us. Online and offline activities for
all levels of math can be found below!
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Offine Activities and Resources |
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Look at baseball cards
and compute batting average and ERA. |
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Collect
sports data for your school or community teams. |
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Compute
win-loss percentages for
the teams you choose. |
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Create the
appropriate graphs for the data you gathered. |
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Complete our worksheet
on batting averages. |
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Check your
answers against our answer
key. |
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Write Roman
numerals from Super Bowls in standard form. |
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