Sunday, January 14, 2018

giving the Acadia some political context, Data Management & Algebra

History



Battles between the colonial powers of France, Britain, and Spain had consequences for many parts of the world.  One of those regions is the Caribbean.  For part of this lesson, we will learn a little bit about the geopolitical connections between Acadia and the Caribbean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Caribbean

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Netherlands/@52.191735,3.0369282,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47c609c3db87e4bb:0xb3a175ceffbd0a9f!8m2!3d52.132633!4d5.291266

https://www.uni-due.de/SVE/VARS_Caribbean.htm#hist

http://www.scl-online.net/FAQS/caribbean.htm

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Mathematics:  Measures of Central Tendency

A more detailed set of photos will be posted on GC.  For now, here are 2 of the 6 photos to summarize how we used some manipulatives to help understand mean, median, and mode.

As with all manipulatives, they should be played with before delving into how Algebra works to help understand some of the more complex aspects of this Math strand.

A very straightforward demonstration of how mean works, if we assume each column is a test.

In some cases, a mark may be missing and you will have to calculate the missing score.  For ease, I left the total number of marks at 40.  I illustrated the equation on the bottom of the desk.




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