Halloween Fun!

Today we solved The Mystery of the Missing Mona Lisa, we learned to draw sugar skeleton skulls, played "Mystery Handshake," boo-gied like crazy and competed in a bone bridge competition. 

STEM CHALLENGE
The goal was to create a bridge that holds a black plastic cat. We were only given 20 minutes to work as a team. It was much more challenging then we thought.  Here are some of the final bridges.

Learning about data...

Students will:

• read data in charts, tables, and graphs (including vertical and horizontal bar graphs)
• describe the data (e.g., “Most of the data values are different”).
• interpret data in charts, tables, and graphs
• Understand and identify mode 

(e.g., “The mode is the value that shows up most often on a graph.”)

• collect and organize data and display the data in charts, tables, and graphs

Use:

• vertical and horizontal bar graphs
• write titles and labels and with labels 

Sample bar graph and description.

Click here to see a video about Pictograph Scales

Data Management

CHAPTER 3- Data Management

Dear Parent/Caregiver:

Your child can practise some activities such as the following:

Tally Charts                                       pages 56-57

Pictographs                                       pages 58-59

Bar Graphs                                        pages 62-63

Communicate about Data              pages 64-65

Mode                                                  review worksheets

• Your child can design a question, conduct a survey, tally the results, and display the data in a bar graph. For example, they could ask, “How many of my books do I want to read, or read again: soon, someday, or never?” and then interpret the results.

• When sharing a circular item, such as a pie, encourage your child to compare the sizes of slices (cut from the centre); this is similar to a circle graph.

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