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If the world were a village of 100 people- data handling

2/18/2013

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To make data handling more interesting we are using the context of this famous social studies book.
Today we watched the clips and thought about how we could present this information for more easy comparison. We make bar charts or pictograms of the Village Nationalities using our dividing by 10 and fraction skills as well as working out scales. We will try doing the same for the languages spoken.
We will go on to interpret the data and draw conclusions as we will collect the same data on our the people in our Numeracy class to see if we are representative of the whole world. 

Click on the above picture for the video. Here are a couple more links too:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU5NTY0NzU2.html
http://www.iftheworldwereavillage.com/video.html
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/g5W7dD6nrXQ/


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Block C- measure and data handling

2/6/2013

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This week we used the Guinness Book of Records to find measurements and discuss the appropriate units used. We worked out a scale to make a height chart on which we marked the shortest people in the world, the tallest and some of us as well.

We had a challenge to find which is the heaviest object in the classroom that would fit in a scale bucket. We had to work out how to collect and organise the measurements.

Play these games to practice your basic measuring and data handling skills. We will continue this unit after the holiday.

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