The OLDEST PERSON Yo've Known

Bush et al detail a better way to interest students in mathematics than using a Super Bowl® commercial. A Prudential® insurance commercial aired during the Super Bowl in 2013 was the impetus for our lesson. In the commercial, four hundred people were polled on "How Old Is the Oldest Person You&...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mathematics teaching in the middle school 2014-12, Vol.20 (5), p.278
Hauptverfasser: Bush, Sarah B, Karp, Karen S, Albanese, Judy, Dillon, Fred
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Zusammenfassung:Bush et al detail a better way to interest students in mathematics than using a Super Bowl® commercial. A Prudential® insurance commercial aired during the Super Bowl in 2013 was the impetus for our lesson. In the commercial, four hundred people were polled on "How Old Is the Oldest Person You've Known?" and each was given a sticker to place on a larger- than-life dot plot marking the age of the oldest person they knew. They re-created this activity for sixth-grade and seventh-grade students to engage them in collecting meaningful data, creating organized data displays, and analyzing and interpreting the data to draw generalizations. We also posed a series of questions about measures of central tendency the shape of data, the interquartile range, absolute mean deviation, representativeness, predictions, and more.
ISSN:1072-0839
2328-5486