Snookerpuss Adventure

November 14, 2000

Month	Total
Mar	15
Apr	18
May	22
June
July	27
Aug	29
Sept	33
Oct

• I thought we were doing a bar graph.
• Do we connect the lines?
• It keeps going up and up.
• August - It’s going to be between 29-31

You think we’re going to make it.

Silent cheer everyone

• When it gets warm, there’s more.

“We have sort of a steady increase….When you have points…and points…and there’s a point missing in the middle…interpolation. Best-fit line. You need to draw a best-fit line. We imagined the line….Some of the dots will be above the line and some will be below the line. We try to get in the middle.”

• A student draws a vertical line at June from 23-26.

Janet Let’s take a vote. (David records.)

35-5

36-12

37-4

We have the opportunity to actually go back and check for October.

EVL-Asia, Ruth, Nick

Victor sits in back of classroom and contributes his vote along with the students.

(Note: . denotes a student response.)

12:20 Class plotted point for October at 36.

• Ruth When will this be happening? Real March?

Month	Total	Grass	Sand	Rock
Mar	15	5	5	5
Apr	18	7	6	5
May	22 (corrected to 23 – correction discovered after 9, 9, 5 were recorded)	9	9	5
June
July	27	12	9	6
Aug	29	15	9	5
Sept	33	16	11	6
Oct	36	18	13	5

Students helped determine that points on graph will be color-coded.

Rock-brown

Sand-red

Grass-green

Grass, sand, and rock are all at 5. (Janet draws a dot with circle around it - a circled data point.) Can make a black dot for “all.”

• It’s not on the legend. You can put it on the legend.
• When do you mean start point?

12:47 Plotting October

12:50

Jan Figure out how to grow most mushrooms. What do we need to know?

• Where to put them.

Jan What do we call this line? Best-fit line.

• Ruth Are we going to make a guess for June?
• Ruth It looks kinda funny. Like fireworks

Jan These 3 lines-show slope. Have you heard of that word?

• Ruth Yes. There’s a steeping slope.

• Ruth It doesn’t have a very big slope.

Sand?

• Ruth It doesn’t have a big one but it’s better than rock.

Where to grow mushrooms?

• Grass. Sand, too. If you run out of space.

A diagram of field is draw with sand, rock and grass. Rock has most amount of field but least amount of mushrooms.

Tom Predicting June.

• Ruth (added them up-then looked at above “total” line.)

Tom Out of 8 groups, 2 were right. Gets harder and harder to count and making sure you got them all.

Tom What’s in the news that shows how important counting is.

• Counting the votes for president.

• This was hard with the controller. It would be easier to do in real life. Three people can go to different places.