Day 32... No AC :(

Today was a warm autumm day and as Murphy would predict,  the ac in our building went out.   It was quite stuffy in my room,  so we relocated to the outdoors.   At least we had a breeze out there!  :)

Day 31... Writing Practice

"The best way to learn is to do!"  Today we practiced more writing using StatKey.

Day 30... Writing Descriptions of Data

I tried something new today.   In the past, I've modeled how I want students to write descriptions of data then turned them loose.  This year,  I gave them back the sorting cards from yesterday as well as a worksheet where I had written 5 descriptions and they had to choose which graph it matched.   Finally,  we talked about how to write in context and I asked them to write a contextual description similar to the worksheet.   One kid asked, "so you need us to write clearly enough that you know it's this graph and not another one?"  YES! :)

Day 29... Describing Distributions

Today we started discussing how to describe a distribution.   As an introduction,  I referenced a news article from a few nights ago where the reporter faked a theft in order to do a story on eye witness accounts.   The more detail you give the cops the better sketch they can produce.   Similarly,  the more detail we give about a distribution,  the better we are able to visualize the graph and how the variable behaves.   Here,  students are sorting distributions by shape in order to see common patterns.

Day 28... Frog Ponds

I love finding toys at Dollar Tree to use in class!  I've had these frog pond sets for several years and is such a fun way to gather a quick data set.  The kids get so competitive!

Day 27.. Test Day!

There is something about the nice straight rows of a test day that just makes me happy :)

Day 26... Review Trivia

Today we reviewed for a test and I used a "Trivia Night" style approach.   We had 3 rounds of 4 questions.  It was funny to see how much some of the kids got into it.  :)