Sports is a huge part of our culture--video games, television, even what we wear. You can reach kids by using sports analogies in your math lessons. Calculating scoring averages, per minute efficiency, and probabilities can touch up division, addition, subtraction, and algebra skills.

I use to sell Medical insurance but got into teaching a couple of years ago because Ithought I could "do better" than the teachers my kids had. They were boring an unimaginative. This idea is great and an excellent example of the kinds of things I try to do in the classroom. Thank you for sharing!

The Baseball Hall of Fame is a non-profit, educational institution. This is a way we can connect with schools in a free, easy, open way to reinforce math concepts. We do offer an education program entitled "Batter Up" either on-site or through videoconferencing. Click the link to see the online thematic unit.

Here we are using daily box scores, found in newsp… Continue