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\nWhen it comes to collecting sports cards, people often\u00a0focus on the cards\u2019 financial worth<\/a>. And understandably so.<\/p>\n

After all, when a small piece of cardboard that originally cost just dollars or even cents is suddenly worth more than a million bucks after the featured player rises to fame, it\u2019s hard to ignore the kind of massive wealth that certain sports cards can command.<\/p>\n

For instance, a 1952 Mickey Mantle card\u00a0sold for a then-record US$5.2 million<\/a>\u00a0in January 2021. A 2003-2004 LeBron James card\u00a0also sold for $5.2 million<\/a>\u00a0in April 2021.<\/p>\n

The highest-selling sports card in history is one that features Honus Wagner, which\u00a0sold for $6.6 million in August 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a business professor who focuses on sports, I would never knock the trading of sports cards as a way to make an extra buck or as a hobby, or even just to pocket a piece or two of sports memorabilia \u2013 or just for the nostalgia of it all. But as an educator, I see another purpose for sports cards that goes well beyond memorabilia and their monetary worth.<\/p>\n

And that is, I believe sports cards \u2013 just like sports in general \u2013 can be\u00a0integrated into the classroom<\/a>\u00a0as a way to stimulate students\u2019 interest in math, probability, statistics and other related subjects they might otherwise dread.<\/p>\n

This can be done at the college level, which I have done. But more importantly, I believe it should be done at the K-12 level as well. Integrating sports into the classroom is what\u00a0math curriculum specialist Natalie Kautz<\/a>\u00a0of Rowan University and her colleague Michelle Kowalsky argue in a\u00a0book about using pop culture to reach K-12 students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rich variety of numbers generated by all types of sports, as well as connections to popular culture extensions, naturally provides opportunities for exploration in numerical literacy,\u201d Kautz and Kowalksy wrote in a chapter about using sports as a way to foster numerical literacy among students. \u201cUsing real sports data, students can perform operations and calculations, do statistical analyses, and create charts or graphs to enhance their learning of both basic and advanced operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

They go on to say that \u201cnearly every concept taught in a K-12 mathematics curriculum\u201d lends itself to a sport-based lesson of some sort.
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Trading cards are on the rise again. Bryan Bedder\/Getty Images for ReedPop<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Resurgent interest<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Now is a particularly good time to use sports cards in the classroom. Trading cards have grown quite\u00a0popular<\/a>\u00a0as of late due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

For example, in 2020, interest in sports card collecting\u00a0grew as sports games were canceled due to COVID-19<\/a>. Such a scenario may be slowly unfolding anew as new variants of the coronavirus have begun to cause officials to\u00a0postpone or cancel sports contests<\/a>\u00a0once again in late 2021 going into 2022.<\/p>\n

Cards in the classroom<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Using sports as a teaching tool is not an abstract concept for me. Back in 2017 and 2018 at Florida State University, I used baseball and basketball cards to teach a class about sports analytics, which is essentially the use of data analytics in the world of sports.<\/p>\n

Sports analytics \u2013 which is expected to become a\u00a0$3.44 billion industry globally by 2028<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is playing an increasingly vital role in sports. For instance, some colleges use it to\u00a0recruit athletic talent<\/a>. Professional sports teams, such as the the Golden State Warriors, have used analytics as the \u201csecret sauce to championship success<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The class I taught attracted mostly sport management majors but was open to other students as well. And sports trading cards played a prominent role in my class.<\/p>\n

For instance, to teach the\u00a0\u201cPythagorean Theorem of Baseball,\u201d<\/a>, which\u00a0baseball analytics guru Bill James<\/a>\u00a0developed to estimate how many games a team will win, I would have students \u201cdraft\u201d players by randomly picking cards from packs. Then, using statistics from the same year for the selected players, I would have students tally the runs scored for the hitters and the runs allowed for the pitchers. Once students collect those two numbers, all that remains is putting them into the formula of Runs Scored squared divided by Runs Scored squared plus Runs Allowed squared. This formula then produces a winning percentage estimate.<\/p>\n

Within the context of sports analytics, the idea is to show students that various statistics, when looked at collectively, can be used to predict certain outcomes. But such an exercise can also be used just to get students comfortable with statistics and using them in different ways.<\/p>\n

Students have enjoyed seeing how their teams performed using something like a\u00a0standings page<\/a>\u00a0that they might see on ESPN.<\/p>\n

I did a similar exercise using packs of basketball cards I bought online. I would have students select of pack of cards and then rank the players using economics professor David Berri\u2019s\u00a0\u201cWin Score\u201d formula<\/a>. The simple formula requires students to add a player\u2019s points, rebounds and steals from one season together, then add half of their assists and half of their blocked shots. Students then subtract a player\u2019s field goal attempts, turnovers and half of their free throw attempts \u2013 again, from the same season \u2013 along with half of the player\u2019s personal fouls. This enables a person to develop a snapshot of a player\u2019s performance. But it also shows students how they can use statistics to analyze a player\u2019s performance in different ways.<\/p>\n

At all levels<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One of the best things about using sports cards is that they can be used at any grade level. For example, in preschool, you can use the cards to help kids learn and remember numbers by having them read the\u00a0numbers on players\u2019 jerseys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In elementary school, students can use the information on the back of baseball cards to learn division. Simple exercises like dividing a player\u2019s number of hits by their total number of times at bat produces the player\u2019s batting average \u2013 a key statistic in baseball.<\/p>\n

Sports trading cards lend themselves to all sorts of fun and lively lessons. For instance, in 2020, the Topps trading card company put forth a\u00a0series of lessons<\/a>\u00a0that teachers could do using sports trading cards. In one lesson, the company invited teachers to ask students to find the average age of five players in their card collection. Another lesson called for students to organize 10 cards based on a player\u2019s weight from heaviest to lightest as fast as students could.<\/p>\n

[You\u2019re smart and curious about the world. So are The Conversation\u2019s authors and editors.<\/em>\u00a0You can read us daily by subscribing to our newsletter<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Flipping the cards<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The use of sports cards in the classroom could serve as a way to help maintain interest in math \u2013 a subject in which students\u2019 skills have\u00a0taken a hit during the pandemic<\/a>. Interest in a subject is key for\u00a0learning the subject<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0succeeding at it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For all these reasons, instead of focusing on the photographs on the face of sports cards, I believe the time has come for educators to start making better use of the statistics on the backs of the cards. While the photos on the front tend to generate the most attention, the statistics on the back of the card provide multiple ways to engage students in math using a sport they love or an athlete that they admire.<\/p>\n

Author Bio: <\/strong>John Holden is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Oklahoma State University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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