Batting Average Activity

In this activity students will figure the batting average for baseball players.

Remind students that even though TV analysts say a player has a batting average of say 285, what they really mean is 28.5% of the time they come up to bat they get a hit.  A batting average is the number of hits a player has divided by the number of at bats they have (rounded to the nearest thousandths place).  Unless a player gets a hit every time they come up to bat, their batting average will always be less than one.

Players:              At bats (AB):                  Hits (H):             Batting Average (BA):

Tom                    125                                 41                       _________

Jacques               113                                 33                       _________

Pedro                  120                                 39                       _________

Manuel               97                                   22                       _________

Rene’                  105                                 34                       _________

Tyson                  63                                   25                       _________

Gerome               83                                   21                       _________

Who had the best batting average?

Who had the worst batting average?

Optional extension to this activity

Have the students watch the following video of a college baseball game (at home) and figure out the batting averages of all the players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaeVnpOa0M

Batting Average Activity KEY

In this activity students will figure the batting average for baseball players.

Remind students that even though TV analysts say a player has a batting average of say 285, what they really mean is 28.5% of the time they come up to bat they get a hit.  A batting average is the number of hits a player has divided by the number of at bats they have (rounded to the nearest thousandths place).  Unless a player gets a hit every time they come up to bat, their batting average will always be less than one.

Players:              At bats (AB):                  Hits (H):             Batting Average (BA):

Tom                    125                                 41                       ____0.328_____

Jacques               112                                 32                       ____0.285_____

Pedro                  120                                 39                       ____0.325_____

Manuel               97                                   22                       ____0.227_____

Rene’                  105                                 34                       ____0.324_____

Tyson                  63                                   25                       ____0.397_____

Gerome               83                                   21                       ____0.253_____

Who had the best batting average?

 Tyson

Who had the worst batting average?

 Manuel

Optional extension to this activity

Have the students watch the following video of a college baseball game (at home) and figure out the batting averages of all the players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaeVnpOa0M