We are working towards having a common language in the classroom, so that we all know that when we use the word categorical we are referring to questions whose answers can be sorted into groups. We are not using the term to mean clear and evident as in the sentence, "I have categorical evidence that she murdered my sister."
One student gave us a hint today on how to know if a question will result in categorical or numerical data. He stated that categorical questions usually have stems such as "How," "Who" or "What", while numerical questions usually have stems such as, "How many," How much," or "When"?
Post an example of a question that would give a numerical answer and one that would give categorical data.
For homework tonight, students will create something to AID THEIR MEMORY. They have the requirements for this assignment in their EARTH Journal. Whatever they create should help them to remember what we are learning in MST (graphing, structure of the Earth, types of data, mean, median and mode).
I did the "test your knowledge on graphs" one, but something weird happened and I couldnt finish it all the way.It gave me some weird error message, and when I reloaded the page, it started me over. so I am just going to try again tomorrow!!! :-) Cool thing, though!
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ReplyDeleterange becase i already knew mean median and mode so the last one i thought o that must be range by:coty
Glad you liked the games. I will keep posting them. You can send me links to games you like too, and I can post them for the rest of the class.
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