Who Does the Laundry at YOUR House?

At my house, Mr. Carlson and I both work at it, sometimes on Saturdays, sometimes during the week. Sorting for different colors and fabrics can get complicated. We ask ourselves, "Do we have enough for a dark load? Are there too many jeans? Will the towels dry before I have to dry the shirts?"

In math this week, we will be using  a different kind of bins as we revisit and extend our understanding of histograms.  So far we have discovered that, like a washing machine that shouldn't be overloaded, no ONE bin of a histogram can hold more than any of the others.  And sometimes, like the laundry problem, figuring out how big each bin should be can be very tricky!

During the past week, we analyzed the data we gathered about license plates in the Hoyt parking lot.  (The most common first digit is five.) We also took a CFA over box-and-whisker plots.  Seventh-graders did a great job on the assessment! Ninety-seven percent of the students (63/65) reached proficiency and many students completed the assessment with no errors, which meant lots of these showed up in my classroom on Friday.

Calendar for April 15 through April 19
Monday and Tuesday: What does the shape of a histogram tell us about the data?
Wednesday: Revisiting frequency tables
Thursday: Revisiting box-and-whisker plots/CFA 6.4
Friday: Relearning/retesting opportunity or Jeopardy

Looking Ahead:  Unit 6 Post-test next week!  Prepare for this great celebration of learning!