The Oldest Person You've Known

Autor/inn/en	Bush, Sarah B.; Karp, Karen S.; Albanese, Judy; Dillon, Fred
Titel	The Oldest Person You've Known
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 20 (2014) 5, S.278-285 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Mathematics Instruction; Secondary School Mathematics; Middle School Students; Grade 6; Grade 7; Advertising; Teaching Methods; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Data Interpretation; Creative Teaching; Generalization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Werbung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Data evaluation; Datenauswertung; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht
Abstract	What better way to interest students in mathematics than using a Super Bowl® commercial? A Prudential® insurance commercial aired during the Super Bowl in 2013 was the impetus for this lesson (see it here on You-Tube™: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IsNiKGMSHUQ). In the commercial, four hundred people were polled on "How Old Is the Oldest Person You've Known?" and each was given a sticker to place on a larger-than-life dot plot marking the age of the oldest person they knew. The authors re-created this activity for sixth-grade and seventh-grade students to engage them in collecting meaningful data, creating organized data displays, and analyzing and interpreting the data to draw generalizations. They also posed a series of questions about measures of central tendency, the shape of data, the interquartile range, absolute mean deviation, representativeness, predictions, and more. The activity was tested in the sixth-grade and seventh-grade classes taught by one of the authors. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10