Today in Math...

Today, we started our unit on data analysis and graphing. In our opening, I challenged students to consider the following: Suppose you could be a whale or an eagle for the day. Which one would you rather be? Once our decisions were made, we had to consider how we would show our data using connecting cubes. The students suggested we let blue cubes stand for the whales since whales live in water. They suggested using black for eagles. We passed around the container of cubes from which students chose either a blue or black cube depending on which animal they picked. Next, students decided we should connect our cubes together so that we could tell which animal more people chose. We ended up with thirteen blue and four black cubes.

During work time, students were asked to make a representation of the Eagle or Whale data. Below are some examples created by students.