Do you think baseball teaches our youngsters bad math?
Do you think baseball teaches our youngsters bad math? Each third of an inning is considered 0.1 innings until the last third is pitched (e.g., if a pitcher pitches 2 2/3 innings, on the stats sheet, he/she pitches 2.2 innings).
Obviously with some of the statistics, it helps with mathematical abilities, but this is a significant erroneous statistic. Also, most baseball stat experts use pure rote memorization for these numbers.
I don't mean that the goal of baseball is to teach math. In other words, I meant "Does learning/watching baseball statistics have any influence on mathematical abilities?"
If trinary math is obsolete, then we should change the stats. I know what the stats mean, but I'm posing this question because I believe the stats may negatively influence youngsters who do not know that this is trinary math and get it confused with the decimal system.
Probably, and that's always kinda bugged me. I actually remember that on baseball cards they used to always print the fractions, and then about 20 years ago they started using the .1 and .2.
I think it's the same way with some words too. For example, a lot of people spell through "thru", maybe because of all the "Drive thru" signs. Also, many people seem to spell light "lite", perhaps because of the beer.
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