Baseball Batting Averages Webquest

Finding Baseball Batting Averages
A WebQuest for 6th Grade Math

Designed by CJ Berthelsen
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Introduction
 Task
 Process
 Evaluation
 Conclusion


Introduction

 You need to find out the batting average of Rafael Furcal who was up to bat 3258 times in his career and got a hit 924  times. You will also need to compute the batting averages of three other players.

  1. What is the batting average?
  2. What did you learn from this?
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Task

By the end of this you should be able to compute the battiing averages of 4 players  

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Process

 

  1. Read through all the directions first or else you will not do the webquest right.
  2. Go to the folloiwng websites to practice the math skills you will need: http://www.aaaknow.com/dec56ax2.htm and http://www.aplusmath.com/games/matho/DivMatho.html
  3. Find out how to calculate a batting average.
  4. Compute the batting averages of the following 4 players and record them on the worksheet

 

Player
At Bats
Hits
Batting Average
Rafael Furcal.
3258
924
????
Bob Johnson
2371
486
????
Tom Smith
4987
1263
????
Jake Day
5639
1345
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Evaluation

To see if yousuccessfully completed the webquest, click here to see the answers. If you correctly computed all the batting averages, then you passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Conclusion

Good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now treat yourself to a look at the Atlanta Braves website



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Rafael Furcal    
.284
Bob Johnson 
.205
Jake Day   
.253
Tom Smith   
.239 


 
    
      
      
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