Today we worked on reviewing average, median and mode before talking about how to use those tools to make arguments around a set of data. Students were given\u00a0basketball statistics and data about restaurants in NYC and a set of statements that weren’t correct about the data and asked them to reword the statement so it actually reflected the data. After that I wanted to get into the\u00a0“Hot Dog Festival” worksheet when my teenagers started acting like teenagers and nothing got done.<\/p>\n
Do you ever find worksheets on your computer from last year\u00a0and think “This worksheet was the Jam! I’m going to roll this out tomorrow and it will be awesome!” I had a worksheet like that today, and I was really excited about how awesome it was going to be. As class started, I realized before I even started teaching it, that it wasn’t going to go well. The beginning of this worksheet had some jokes in it that I forgot about. Naturally, bedlam broke loose when I asked the goofiest kid in the class to read the prompt out loud knowing that there is only w0 minutes to go in\u00a0the 90-minute block, and that\u00a0everyone was a little punchy. My\u00a0one small joke about sausages set off the class and these two boys couldn’t stop laughing about it. I overlooked the joke when I chose this worksheet because I was too focused on how the task fit mathematically in the unit. The moral of the story is\u00a0that you shouldn’t rest on your laurels just because something worked last year.<\/p>\n
Hopefully we can finish the hotdog activity on Thursday, and then we can get into the outlier activity. This activity is another one that I did last year. Naturally,\u00a0I will spend much more time preparing for Thursday’s class than I did today. (I might even write a blog post about it.<\/p>\n
Are you wondering\u00a0what the joke was? Ask me in the comments!<\/p>\n
3\/3<\/p>\n
Edit, ok here is a link to the worksheet, you can see what threw them off in there:\u00a0https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1afWGNu0PtdxchiSRnP4jHBD7lHcNFVBQnRkDW0aol1Y\/edit?usp=sharing<\/p>\n
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