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Show BASEBALL AVERAGES HELP BOYS JN MATHEMATICS By Associated Press. BOSTON", May 13. Baseball batting averape3 and other sporting statistics have been used with success by John R. Hebberd, head of the mathematical department of a local technical, high school, in developing an interest in mathematics amoujr backward boys. Mr. Hebberd has a class of boys who havo spent from seven to nine years in the grammar school without gettinc ahead., One of the most difficult things has been, to give them a crasp of mathematical principles. Tho now schemo of stimulating interest has proved of great assistance. "Wo took advantage of the spring trip of the fietl Sox,J' said Mr. Hebberd, Heb-berd, 'to use batting averages, numbers num-bers of right ,hand players and numbers, num-bers, of left hand players, etc., as fomidations for our mathematical exercises. ex-ercises. "The football season, also,'' ho said, "gives us, opportunity to work out some practical exercises which interest boys who have never before been in-, terosted in mathematics." |