Small update today. I just uploaded a new activity to the "other activities" section. This one focuses on some of the mathematical concepts related to gambling and betting games (specifically, absolute probabilities and expected values). Students apply these concepts first to a simple coin game, and then to the game of American roulette. Finally, they are tasked with creating a game of their own. I considered (and to be honest, I'm still considering) adding a section about slots, but I sort of decided that the activity was long enough at that point, and I wasn't sure if that section would add enough value to avoid redundancy. That's all I have for today. See you in April!
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First blog post in March! I just uploaded a new activity on this website. I ended up skipping chapter nine in the Algebra one book temporarily (I couldn't think of any good ideas for an activity before, but I will probably revisit it now) and went straight to chapter ten, the final chapter. This section of the book is all about data analysis. In the activity, students have to construct a 3 question survey to conduct in their community, then use different data analysis techniques to analyze the results. These include creating two-way frequency and relative frequency tables, dot plots/histograms, and other types of graphs, analyzing the data distribution and outliers, and estimating means/medians. The hope is that they are able to use the data in order to come to some kind of conclusion about the people in the community they surveyed.
Unfortunately, I was not able to complete my goal of creating three more worksheets before Spring break (I only got to two). I am finding that I have less time to work on my project now that Spring sports have started. I think I will really try to push myself over break and get three more done (instead of two) then. I'll be back with another update soon! |
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