Today, I had a warm-up question where I asked the students to come up with three stats used in sports and how are they calculated. The students promptly replied average, mode, and range. It showed me that they were missing a basic concept in how they have a disconnect between the terms of mode, range, median, and mean. Since we won't be doing much next week, I am going to find a website with either activities or with stats to have the students look up stats for either basketball, NYO (native youth olympics), volleyball or wrestling. These are the major sports played in our school. If anyone has suggestions on websites for doing this I"d love to hear about it.
Maybe I can have them find certain stats, how the stats are calculated and have them write up a compare and contrast between at least two players so they can practice analyzing and writing. My students are not good at synthesizing information and this could be turned into a good activity to help with that.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Infographics
I've been reading about infographics and I think it is something worth trying. Since my college prep is in the middle of a project, I think on Monday I will give them a choice of actually writing the short report or preparing an infographic on logs and natural logs and their use. I think they might have more fun doing the infographic rather than a report since it is a bit more creative. From what I've read about infographics, these would be great for the probability unit as students can see the real life applications of probability. Bingo is a huge business out here and parents will often go play to 3 or 4 in the morning. Maybe an infographic on the probability of Bingo would be a good place to start the unit.
I am hoping to discuss a couple math apps I discovered on iTunes that will help students with the distributive property and with the special binomials such as (x^2 - 4). I even have ideas of how to do a graphical representation on Geoboard but I want to do more research on other apps that might help me with the graphical representations.
If anyone knows of one, let me know.
I am hoping to discuss a couple math apps I discovered on iTunes that will help students with the distributive property and with the special binomials such as (x^2 - 4). I even have ideas of how to do a graphical representation on Geoboard but I want to do more research on other apps that might help me with the graphical representations.
If anyone knows of one, let me know.
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