Students will recognize, describe, extend, and create a wide variety of patterns. Students will represent and describe mathematical relationships. Students will interpret graphs. Content standards or outcomes Students will calculate mathematical operations to determine mean, median, mode and range. Students will use a word processing program to express their findings through written statements.
Teacher reinforces the concepts of mean, median, mode and range.
Teacher distributes McDonalds Nutritional Food Chart. Students familiarize themselves with McDonalds chart focusing on the columns, calories and fat. Students, working in groups, will find the mean, median, mode and range from the chart under specific headings. Students collaboratively create graphs and charts to show information. Teacher models writing statements in WORD interpreting the data from graph.