This course uses
baseball as a context for teaching important mathematical concepts. During this class, students become
co-managers of their very own Fantasy Baseball teams. They learn to analyze player’s statistical
data, draft players, make trades, arrange lineups, and play simulated baseball
games.
Students will use fictional baseball cards to gather
statistical data about Fantasy Baseball players. They analyze the data on the cards in order
to determine players’ offensive strengths and weaknesses. Students then take the helm of their own
team, drafting and trading players in order to complete a final Fantasy
Baseball team.
Once teams and rosters have been decided, students complete
a more detailed analysis for each player.
This analysis provides the information needed to create individual
player wheels- proportionally accurate geometric representations of player’s
offensive statistics for a given year.
Students then use these player wheels to play simulated games against
other teams in the classroom. Through
the class, player statistics are continually gathered, analyzed, compared, and
displayed by the student managers. A regular
season schedule is created and carried out by the various teams.
In this class, particular attention to given to multiple
representations of data, fraction/decimal/percent equivalence, proportional
reasoning, data analysis, and probability.
Throughout the class, students are expected to solve problems, develop
and use reasoning skills, and communicate their mathematical understandings both
orally and in writing. Students will
develop computational proficiency through exercises that have meaning and
relevance.
