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Thursday, March 1, 2018

March Reading Madness



Well it is March and I know you ballers are looking forward to March Madness.  In the library I have run March Reading Madness to  coincide with they 64 team tourney.  I have selected the top  16 books that have gone out in our library based on the books circulation.  To decide which book moves on we use a bit of probability.


  Let us assume book A has been taken out 30 times and book B has been taken out 20 times then book A should  get through to the next round 30/(30+20) or 3/5ths of the time compared to book B's 2/5ths of the time.  We then have a student use their calculator and the random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 50.  If it is 1-30 then book A advances and if it is 31-50 then book B advances.  Just working a bit of math in here for you.


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