Trevor Bauer is known to have some fun on Twitter. Normally chiding other players and making baseball fun for everyone who watches. Turns out he was also paying attention in math class and capable if dispensing knowledge when needed.
It started out simple enough. Bauer didn’t have to answer the initial tweet but after he did, it opened up the floodgates. Suddenly, the pressure was on. Could he answer this math question correctly?
@BauerOutage oh and also do you understand the slope of a line and y intercept? I have a math test coming up I don’t get certain things
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 what's the question
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage I'm not home but I'll try to remember it's like y•2=x and you have to graph it on the line and say the y intercept
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 for every 1 unit on the x axis go 2 units on the y axis. y intercept is where it crosses the y axis. Make y 0 and figure x.
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage ok so I checked the website on my phone and I will get 2/5 as the slope but the right answer is 2 so I will put 2& its wrong
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 how do you come up with 2/5?
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage my math teacher told me that when the rise is 2 and the run is 5 the slope is 2/5 but now when we have to graph it won't work
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 that's correct but where did the 5 come from??
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage there are like 2 points on a graph and you find out the slope of the 2 points and you would move up 2 and over 5 to get to the
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage the question is y-8=x and it says to plot (-2,6) (0,8) (2,10) and I don't get where they got that pic.twitter.com/CKOEE7rTq4
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 (-4,4) also works, as does (5,13) etc
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 hope that helped!
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage it did! I got the question right and I never would have without your help thank you you have no idea how much that meant to me
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
It’s not everyday a professional athlete helps you out with your homework. Bauer did go to UCLA for a period of time so it isn’t as if he is lacking in the smarts department.
Now the question is what will he do next? Maybe he will help someone finish up their geography homework. If you need a tutor, Bauer might be the man to call, at least in terms of baseball players.