Article

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-teen-pregnancy-rate-drops-50-in-7-years-after-city-efforts-b99126584z1-228951391.html

teen pregnancy

http://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm

Wordle

Girls Academy

Statistics Wordle

www.wordle.net

Statistics Wordle
 

www.wordle.net

Alverno Wordle

Good evening - here is a quick sample of a Wordle.  Directions to do a wordle are below:

Step One: would be to go to blogger.com. Select "New post."

You have already done Step One.

Step Two: Look for icon "LINK" to the upper right and click on this icon.

Step Three: When requested - enter the link www.wordle.net

Step Four: A text box will appear.  Type in the words we have used in this class so far - here is a list of words you could use and o\you can use other words regarding math that you would like:

prime~numbers, data, data~set, circle~graph, statistics, mean, median, mode, research~question, sample

NOTE: place a comma between each word or phrase.  IF  YOU ARE PUTTING TWO or MORE WORDS TOGETHER,  you have to use the symbol "tilda".  It is on your keyboard - upper left side to the left of 1 - use the shift key.

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Step Five: Select the RANDOMIZE box - and see what happens! Also at the top of the Wordle look at what else you can do: font, layout and color

Step Six: Once satisfied with your Wordle, select the Create key at the bottom.

A "picture" such as above will appear.

Step Seven: Select "SAVE AS PNG" to DESKTOP on the computer.

Step Eight: Copy and paste your Worlde into a New Post.

Sample Word it outs!

Word it Out Sample

On this Friday and Nest Friday, we have two quite different activities in our Reading the World Math Class.  We are going to put to work the ideas/concepts/vocabulary/statistical problems we have worked on throughout the last five classes.  Above is a sample of a Word It Out - composite of vocabulary found in a statistical study on teens and smartphones!

You will be creating one of these for a research study that you will design tomorrow and in our next class.  The product will be a poster which will include your "Word It Out", a title of your proposed study, a description of the study, an hypothesis, sample data, and a graph.  We will be posting the posters around our classrooms.  All Math Girls will then do a Gallery Walk commenting on and giving feedback on the research study and the presentation style you used.

We will make the posters colorful and inviting to look at!

Directions will be on the computers for how to complete a Word It Out!

We will also have internet sites for you to access to get brief information on a possible research study.  Some examples which you might start to consider could be:

1. Cell phone usage among teens
2. Teen pregnancy decreasing in Milwaukee
3. Women and the political race for president - importance of women voting
4. College bound girls and studying math
5. Teens and Drugs in the 21st century
6. Girls and Drugs in the 21st Century
7. Teen emotional health - depression
8.  Gun control and the second amendment
9. Medical studies: breast cancer, weight loss bypass surgery,
10. Article in the Milwaukee Journal which describes a research study.
11.  Others that you might suggest

After our visit to the Access Center this Friday, we will practice Word It Out by creating one using vocabulary from our class.  Then you will choose your groups (4 to a group) and try a few of the internet cites on research studies.  We will have a list of these created for you to review.  Once you have chosen a study, and saved the file, and sent it to your personal email, time permitting you will create a Word It Out from one paragraph or more from the article.

Don't worry - we have directions and helps for all these tasks.  We hope this will be a fun way to finish up the next two weeks - up to our Thanksgiving break!!!!!.

November 6, 2015
Hello Math Girls!

We have an announcement to make re our next class - November 13.  We will be going on a Field trip to the College Access Center on Morgan.  You will leave by bus from Alverno and return about one hour later - therefore we will have class for only about one hour back here at Alverno.

We are going to start today with some ideas for a Gallery Walk.  A Gallery Walk will be made up of the colorful posters you will design next week and complete the week after!  Part of our celebration of working with you through five consecutive classes!!!!! (remember - incentives are given for attending all!) will be your sharing your insights into mathematics.

For this weeks blog, you will go to the following link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Histograms+and+Box+and+Whisker+Plots+Algebra%2C+Mrs.+Slack-+Joles+1)+Using&oq=Histograms+and+Box+and+Whisker+Plots+Algebra%2C+Mrs.+Slack-+Joles+1)+Using&aqs=chrome..69i57.264849j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

The first entry will be:

Worksheet #2 on Histograms and Box and Whisker Plots.jnt 

www.enetlearning.org/.../Worksheet-2-on-Histograms-and-Box-and-Whi...

Chapter 16 Worksheet #2 and Notes on Histograms and Box and Whisker Plots Algebra, Mrs. Slack-. Joles. 1) Using the data below, complete the frequency 

Open this document.

Do problems 1 and 2 (data tables)

Choose two of the problems: one for an histogram (Nos. 3 or 4)

Make an attempt at Problem 9

OR the Challenge Problem 10-14!

Post your answers on your blog.  Use graph paper in your folder to show your work.

Next week's blog - start to think about a problem (real-world) that you could use to develop a data table and a graph!  We will research data in class.  Come prepared with your topic!

Sherrie