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Postby nycmath » Mon Aug 24, 2026 11:09 am

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Re: Baseball Mathematics

Postby Math Tutor » Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:58 am

Nice link.
Baseball is one of the easiest places to show kids that math is everywhere — a .300 hitter is just the fraction 3/10 in disguise, which also means failing seven times out of ten.

Every fly ball is a parabola which is why launch angle gets talked about so much.

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Re: Baseball Mathematics

Postby nycmath » Tue Aug 25, 2026 1:30 am

Math Tutor wrote:Nice link.
Baseball is one of the easiest places to show kids that math is everywhere — a .300 hitter is just the fraction 3/10 in disguise, which also means failing seven times out of ten.

Every fly ball is a parabola which is why launch angle gets talked about so much.


I am a huge baseball fan.

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