High School Statistics Riverside Stadium – Home of the Harrisburg Senators Minor League Baseball Adam Whitaker

Rationale For Selecting Field Trip Make math fun Show how statistics have real world applications Create a fun field trip It relates closely to the Introduction of Statistics It has applications with the statistical software MINITAB

Getting to Riverside Stadium The stadium is located on City Island The Island hosts amusement park rides, miniature golf, jet skiing, swimming, and eateries Parking is located on City Island during the week for $2 and on the shores of the Susquehanna River A foot bridge is available from either side of the Susquehanna General admission tickets would cost $5 per child The bus ride is half an hour without traffic – an hour would be allotted to deal with traffic Three hours would be allotted for game time

Maps to Riverside Stadium Directions To Riverside Stadium

Pictures of Riverside Stadium Outside of Stadium Outfield Down Third Baseline Our Wonderful Seating

Activities for the Students: A unit on introductory statistics will be covered at the time the field trip is taken The students will collect data at the game to be analyzed in class After the trip the students will combine their data to get statistics for both teams Use the data to calculate statistics relevant to what studying in class (mean, standard deviation, normal distribution…) Use the statistics found to illustrate material taught in class Use MINITAB to calculate calculate, illustrate, and graph statistics

Possible Questions: In what other real life situations could statistics be used? In what ways did using real life examples make the material easier to understand? How did you feel about the MINITAB software? In what ways does MINITAB make statistics easier?