Baseball Math: Grandslam Activities and Projects for Grades 4–8 - Couverture souple

Jennison, Christopher

 
9781596473539: Baseball Math: Grandslam Activities and Projects for Grades 4–8

Synopsis

This fourth-edition activity book uses the lore, numbers, and real-world contexts of baseball to teach problem solving, reasoning, and communication across grades 4–8. Students work through dozens of one-page activities and longer, small-group projects—from computing averages and ratios to designing a ballpark and keeping score—so skills are learned in context, not isolation. The Table of Contents maps every activity to specific Common Core State Standards strands (Operations & Algebraic Thinking; Measurement & Data; Ratios & Proportional Relationships; Expressions & Equations; Statistics & Probability). Reproducible pages and an Answer Key make it easy to implement in class or at home.

What’s inside (highlights, with page cues):

  • Grades 4–8 scope; problem-solving emphasis (no fixed grade labels; includes challenge problems and open-ended questions). See Introduction, pp. iii–iv.

  • Standards mapping for each activity/project. See “Contents,” pp. v–x.

  • One-page skill builders such as Card Profits, Team Trip, Average Attendance, Baseball Budgets, Hit Parade (graphs/averages), Striking Out (ratios), and more. Activities section begins p. 2.

  • Extended projects including Counting the Crowd (attendance analysis), Follow Your Favorite (season-long stat tracking), Above Average (create composite team metrics), Home Field (design a ballpark with scale), Lopsided Ballpark (re-lay a field inside an odd stadium), Star Wars (Hall of Fame comparisons), and a class performance of Casey at the Bat. Projects start p. 54; “Casey at the Bat,” p. 93.

  • Real baseball skills & artifacts: Keeping Score (how to score a game, with sample innings), Fields of Dreams (historic park diagrams), Ballpark Field Trip math, and more. See pp. 65–67; 51–52; 42.

  • Reproducible for classroom use and Answer Key included (pp. 101–114). Rights note appears on activity pages.

Perfect for: classroom teachers, intervention, enrichment, after-school clubs, and homeschoolers who want math that feels like the real world.

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