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Jake had one thing on his mind when he raced off 

the school bus, and it was not the math homework 

that was shoved in his backpack.

His favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals, had a day game 

today against Chicago. He could not wait to see if Yadier Molina 

could continue his hitting streak.  

Just as his favorite player stepped in the batting box,   his mom 

came home. 

 “Jake, do you have homework?”   Jake sighed. “Yeah, mom.   I 

have some math stuff that I don’t understand. I’ll do it later, Yadi 

is up to bat!”  

Just like that, Jake’s mom came in the living room and turned off 

the television. “AW, mom! I’ll do it later!”    “No, we will do it now. 

What is your homework over?”

Jake went and got his backpack and pulled out the wrinkled sheet 

of paper. “Division. I don’t like division. It seems so hard. Divisor, 

dividend, and quotient. I do not know what any of that means, 

mom!

Jake’s mom smiled and told him that he should like division. “Why 

would I like math?   I like baseball, not math!”   Mom shook her 

head. “Jake, what is Yadier Molina’s batting average?”    Without 

missing a beat, Jake replied, “.339 before today’s game”.  

“Do you know how to figure out Yadi’s average?”   Jake sighed 

again. “No,   I just know it changes with every at bat.”   Mom 

laughed. “You are right. To get his average you take the number of 

times he has gotten a hit and divide that number by the number of 

times he has been up to bat. Pretty simple, huh?”

Jake had a funny look on his face. “You mean to tell me that by 

doing division, I can find out Yadi’s average and the other 

Cardinal players’ averages too?!”   Mom laughed and slid a pencil 

over to Jake. “Yes, you can. First though, let’s figure out your 

homework.”   

"Let's figure out those tricky definitions. A dividend is the number 

you want to divide up. What is the number you want to divide up in 

your first problem?"   Jake looked. "56."

"Great! Now. A divisor is the number that you divide by. What is 

the divisor in your first problem?"   "8. So eight is the divisor and 

56 is the dividend. But, what is the quotient mom?"

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