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Re: new to math...
Posted by new4me on 6/28/08
thanks!!! Sounds great-- I am willing to take all suggestions
at this point!!
On 6/27/08, Kim/AR/math wrote:
> I have not used this as a beginning of the year activity,
> but I think it would work. (It was taken from CMP.)
>
> Make a line plot using the length of students' names. I use
> first and last names - don't remember if that was the way it
> was in CMP. This will allow you to get to know students'
> names. I do this on a transparency (one for each class), so
> I can discuss it more the next day if needed.
>
> Depending on the background of your students, you can do a
> lot of different things with the data: make a bar graph from
> it, find mean, median, mode, range.
>
> Ask your students, "If someone new joined the class, how
> long would you expect their name to be?" "What is a typical
> name length for someone in your class?" "Do you think your
> name length is typical?" "Elizabeth Williamson said,'My name
> is the longest, but in the bar graph, the bar that
> represents my name in the smallest. Why?' How would you
> answer her?" (I have these questions for students to respond
> to on their own in a worksheet, then they share with the
> class.)
>
> Hope this helps - enjoy teaching 6th grade math!!!
Posts on this thread, including this one
- new to math..., 6/27/08, by new4me!.
- Re: new to math..., 6/27/08, by Kim/AR/math.
- Re: new to math..., 6/28/08, by new4me.
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