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Bucks Schoolteacher Uses Phillies' Stats To Make Math More Interesting

WARMINSTER, Pa. (CBS) -- A fifth-grade teacher in the Centennial School District in Bucks County, Pa. is using his lifelong love of the Phillies as a tool to teach his students about math.

Baseball is a game of statistics -- batting averages for the players and earned run averages for the pitchers. But how are those numbers calculated? That's what Joseph Pisacano is teaching his students at McDonald-Davis Elementary in Warminster.

He says they're learning about algebraic principles, solving equations, and rounding decimals:

"They don't really say that the person has a batting average of 245 thousandths, but they say the person has a batting average of 245, so we talk about the application of decimals in the real world and of course in baseball games."

He says the lessons are even turning some students who didn't watch the games before into fans.

Their assignment for this weekend: to try to develop their own stats by following one or two players and figuring out their batting average.

Reported by Brad Segall, KYW Newsradio.

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