Students practice and apply important math skills as they enjoy popular sports and follow their favorite teams and sports heroes. Activities and projects aimed at both boys and girls are based on historical and real-life situations. They involve kids in scores and score keeping, records and statistics, travel budgets and the cost of seats and refreshments, building the stadium of their dreams, and much more. OlympicMath covers both summer and winter games. Grades 4-8
Barbara Gregorich is the author of Waltur Buys a Pig in a Poke and Waltur Paints Himself into a Corner (Houghton Mifflin), early readers featuring Waltur, a bear who learns folk wisdom as expressed in idioms and proverbs -- but only after humorous results. She is the author of numerous early readers and workbooks published by School Zone Publishing, as well as the author of Workman's Brain Quest Workbook Grade 4.
Her adult fiction includes She's on First, a well-received mainstream novel about a woman major league baseball player, and Dirty Proof, a mystery featuring Frank Dragovic, Chicago Croatian private detective. Her nonfiction work, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball (Harcourt Brace), won the SABR-Macmillan award for best baseball research of the year.
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