Day 140: Line Plots Introduction

6th Grade Math Standards: Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots. MA.4.a. Read and interpret circle graphs.

Quote of the Day: “You build strong relationships through great conversations, not one person showing the other how much they know.” – Andrew Sobel

Question from Yesterday (as always from a student): "So if we're finding the range can we just say subtract the two outliers?"

The Learning Objective: Display data sets in line plots

Assessment: Exit ticket with fill in the blank that asked students for two things that a line plot can find, what letter to use to mark data in a line plot, and for another name it is sometimes called.

Agenda:

1. QSSQ
2. Review the Test
3. Review the weekly quiz with a student's work. 
4. Have the students line up by how many colors their shirts have
5. Find the measures of central tendency and variation of the shirt colors in the classroom
6. Pass out the exit ticket
7. Pass out the homework which included 10 practice problems

Glass Half-Full: I was not planning on doing the classroom shirt colors for as long as I did, but students were asking questions and curious, so I went with it. We ended up skipping the problem that I had made ahead of time, which was fine given the results we had during the notes.
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Also of note, everything I'm doing right now and have been doing for several weeks is in groups of four instead of in lecture form. It's much easier for me and I think the students are enjoying the social interactions more as well.

Regrets: The ten problems on the homework were tedious because a few of them repeated each other and ultimately I did not end up going over these the following day. I would cross out the last problem if I were to do this homework assignment again because the extra problem did not add to the skill level for the students and only made them have a disdain for line plots.