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

Jennison, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596473533 ISBN 13: 9781596473539

Publisher: Good Year Books, 2022

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Good Year Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596473533
• ISBN 13: 9781596473539
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 116