For the fifth consecutive year, I attended the Joint Mathematical Meeting of the Mathematics Association of America (the MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (the AMS). This year the meeting was in San Diego from January 7 through January 10. This meeting is the most important meeting for both these organizations. At this joint meeting, …
This year the Joint Math Convention was in Atlanta, GA. As luck would have it, Turner Field was closed and SunTrust Park was not yet opened to the public. Would this be my first math convention without any baseball? Not only that, the city virtually shut down due to an ice storm. On Saturday afternoon, …
This January I gave similar talks at both the Math Conference in Seattle Washington and at the Kiwanis Club of Naples on the Gulf. Both talks discussed my philosophy of teaching. That is, the teaching of any subject matter is more successful for the teacher and more enjoyable for the student if the student both …
Three blocks away from the Babe Ruth Museum is the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, which is the state’s sports history headquarters. It features exhibits on the Baltimore Orioles, Colts, Ravens and Blast; Orioles Hall of Fame; Negro League teams; the Preakness; the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame; regional college athletics; a Kids’ Discovery Room; …
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 …
My talk was given on Friday at the Baltimore Convention Center. On Saturday after breakfast, we decided to visit the Babe Ruth Museum which is located just a few blocks away from Camden Yards. A trail of baseballs on the pavement led us to the museum. The museum is located on the site of the …
Last week I was in Baltimore, MD, where I was invited to present my new formula at the Joint Mathematical Meeting of the American Math Society and the Mathematics Association of America. As discussed in previous blogs, I developed the following new formula to predict a team’s winning percentage: Winning Percentage = .000683*(RS – RA) …