The students gathered data for the following questions:
Abby: Analyzed bags of M and M's
Sophie: How much sleep do you need to get per night?
Emma and Zoe: What is your favorite animal?
Jack: What is your favorite holiday?
Treyvon : What is your favorite color?
Milo: How many people live in your house?
Jada: How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Leah: What is your favorite season?
Matthew: What is your favorite sport?
Alexis: What is your favorite flavor for Skittles?
David: How tall are you?
Students organized the data by creating many different types of graphs. They made line graphs, bar graphs, line plots, pictographs and pie charts. They then analyzed it to find the mean, mode, median and range.
The following students defined the above vocabulary in their journal entries:
Jack:
Range: Range means there are two numbers, and you subtract the the smallest number from the largest number.
Mean: Average
Median: List numbers from the smallest to biggest. Then find the middle number.
Mode: The number that you use the most.
Zoe:
Mean: Add all the numbers together and then divide by the amount of numbers.
Mode: The number that occurs the most.
Emma:
Mode: The mode is the number that shows up the most.
Ask your children to explain their graphs to you. I will be sending them home this week. The lessons used the inquiry approach and were student centered.
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