Seattle is a great place to visit. Some of the sights of interest include the Space Needle, the downtown waterfront, the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, Pike Place Market, the Ballard Locks, the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum, and many other exciting sights. Many of these sights are free and the rest are very inexpensive. Of …
Month: January 2016
The Joint Meeting of the two major math associations, the MAA and the AMS, was held January 6-10, 2016 in Seattle, Washington. I was selected to present a paper on how I use baseball to teach statistics using my book Sandlot Stats. My wife Tara persuaded me to take a tour of Safeco Field, the …
A streak in sports occurs when a team or player increases their performance to a higher level resulting in consecutive successes over consecutive trials. A trial could be a team’s game and success for that trial could be a win; a trial could be all plate appearances of a player for one game with success …