Survey

Dr. Data is collection a survey on how schools communicate with their community. Please take our survey.

Thank you,
Dr. Data

How do you connect your classroom to the community?

A. By skyping

B. By having a school business partnership

C. By taking students to visit places in the commuity.

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Dear Mrs. Baxtor's class,

We would like to recommend Google Forms for your survey creation and data collection. This is an easy way to post questions and then give your community members a URL where they can go to answer them! Here are some step-by-step instructions: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87809 for creating a form/survey. Also, here is a sample form that we created: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGxGamxCZjkyU3FXT19GVFJtU2FuRnc6MQ The answers come in on an Excel spreadsheet, here is what our data looks like from teachers in our school who took our sample survey: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsObDbgsk5DidGxGamxCZjkyU3FXT19GVFJtU2FuRnc&hl=en#gid=0 You can use Google Forms to quickly analyze the data with their graphs OR you can use another fun site called Create-a-Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createAgraph/default.aspx to make some fancier graphs. Like the sample above that we created using our data:



Your Friend,
Dr. Data

Data Collection

Dear Dr. Data,

My class is planning our annual Make a Difference project and we would like to gather information from our community regarding some of their environmentally friendly practices. We were curious if you had some recommendations for the best way to gather the data and then analyze it?

Mrs. Baxtor
Lawrence, Kansas

Parts of a Circle

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Dr. Data

Metric System

Earlier Cynde shared with the data team that her class was working on the metric system. We created a video on that subject. We hope it helps you class, Cynde.

Sincerely,
Dr. Data

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Marble Problems

We have finally solved the marble problem. Here is our data lab answer:

Since there are 3/5 marbles that are red. You must first find out how many blue and green marbles there are.

3/5 + ___ + ___ = 5/5
so
5/5 - 3/5 = 2/5
so
__ + ___ = 2/5

by looking at the last problem you can see that each of the blue and green marbles must equal 1/5 each for the total to be 5/5

Red 3/5 3/5 = ?/15 5*3=15 so 3*3=9 3/5 = 9/15
Blue 1/5 1/5 = ?/15 5*3=15 so 1*3=3 1/5 = 3/15
Green 1/5 1/5 = ?/15 5*3=15 so 1*3=3 1/5 = 3/15
= 5/5

So drawing a blue and red marble is 9/15 + 3/15 = 12/15 reduced is 4/5

So there is a 4 out of 5 chance that a blue and red marble will be drawn.

Dr. Data

Math Facts

Christy said...

How can you use technology to teach math facts?

Christy, we found some great sites for practicing math facts. We gave you our opinion on them, and we hope you enjoy them.

Sincerely,
Dr. Data

matching game
http://quizhub.com/quiz/f-multiplication.cfm

multiplication rock videos on youtube (search for the others; it looks like most of them are there)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkgNf69ihY&feature=related

kidport 4th grade
http://www.kidport.com/grade4/math/NumberSense/G4-M-NS-Mult12.htm

Funbrain:
http://www.funbrain.com/tictactoe/index.html

Kidport 3rd grade
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/third/

kidport 6th grade (really good stuff)
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/sixth/

Math Trainer: 5 minute time test just press go
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/math-trainer-multiply.html

johnnies math-really, really good
http://jmathpage.com/JIMSMultiplicationpage.html