1. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD STARTER: If you get 31 out of 40 points on a test, what percent of the problems did you answer correctly?

2. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD Review: To convert a fraction to a decimal… Divide Ex: Convert ¾ 1 / 5 ½ 70 / 100 24 / 132

3. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD More review: To convert a decimal to a percent… Multiply by 100 OR Move the decimal 2 places Ex: Convert 0.75 0.5 0.32 0.07 0.0035 "0 so to Rt. 0..75×10075 err.. 75% '32. '"""'is"...,.=............

4. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD So who uses this anyway? …Take one guess…

5. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD Fun with Baseball Stats

6. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD Find the ratio of hits to at bats and round to 3 decimal places.

7. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD Sample Card: find

8. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/morgajo02.shtml Step 1: Get AB, H, 2B, 3B, HR for your player… Copy each in the numerator of your Player Stat Card

9. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD Step 2: Calculate each fraction Convert to decimal Write decimal as a 2-digit number over 100 The numerator (your 2-digit number) is the number of squares Step 3:Fill in your game card

10. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD STEP 4: PLAY BALL! b Choose teams and put batting order on the board. b Each team gets 3 outs per inning. I will keep score on the board. b Spin spinner twice. 1 st spin on horizontal axis 2 nd spin on vertical axis. Advance as per last spin. For simplicity sake, all base-runners advance the number of bases as batter has hit. EX: runner on 2 nd, batter hits a double or triple, runner scores.EX: runner on 2 nd, batter hits a double or triple, runner scores.

11. Mrs. Santucci, MHRD What did the ball game have to do with probability? http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol6/intro_probability.html