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If Our Classroom Were a Village

Based on: If the World Were a Village and If America Were a Village by David J. Smith Directions: Create a booklet in your small group that represents our classroom statistically. You may use the following points as a checklist to keep you on track. 1. _____ After listening to the book If the World Were a Village, be an active participant in the classroom brainstorming session about possible data to collect for your books that would create a snapshot of our class. 2. _____ Get together with your small group and decide on the data you will collect. Each student is responsible for at least 2 pages of your groups book. 3. _____ Using a data collection sheet, survey your entire class for each data topic. 4. _____ On each page of your book include: a. _____ a clear indication of what data you collected. (title, heading, labels, etc.) b. _____ an illustration that matches your data topic. c. _____ your data written as fractions. d. _____ your data written as decimals and percents if you choose. Mrs. Christner will meet with groups who want to include decimals and percents. e. _____ a line plot or a bar graph representing your data. (At least one page must include a line plot.) 5. _____ Check your data with your group mates before declaring your pages finished. 6. _____ Create a cover for your book. 7. _____ Once all pages are completed, see Mrs. Christner for instructions on how to assemble the pages.

The Math Behind If Our Classroom Were a Village Creating Fractions from your Collected Data: Keep in mind: If you really surveyed the entire class, your denominator should be the total number of students in the class, and should remain the same for each data point. You may reduce fractions if you choose to, but you may also choose to leave them in the same denominator that represents the class as a whole if you prefer. (21 in this case) You should include a fraction for each piece of data you collect. For example: If you surveyed 15 students and 3 students have 2 T.V.s in their house, 5 students have 3 T.V.s in their house, 5 students have 4 T.V.s in their house, and 2 students have 6 T.V.s in their house, your fractions would look like this: o o o o 3/15 or 1/5 own 2 T.V.s 5/15 or 1/3 own 3 T.V.s 5/15 or 1/3 own 4 T.V.s 2/15 own 6 T.V.s

If you choose a line plot for that data it would look something like the plot below. (You need to make a line plot for one of your data collections. The other can be a bar graph, but could also be a line plot if you choose.) Number of T.V.s Owned by Mrs. C.s 4th Grade

X X X
2

X X X X X
3

X X X X X
4 5

X X
6

Number of T.V.s

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