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!!!!!.