Week of October 30-November 3

This week, the 3rd graders learned that bar graphs are useful when trying to compare and contrast data. Now that they found the average movie ratings for the five most recent movies from each studio, they will use this data to create bar graphs. This will help us see which movies were most liked and which studio had the highest ratings. This info will be very useful when deciding which studio to work for!

In 4th grade, the students in 4b explored what it means for a game to be fair. We realized that the theoretical probability for each player to win must be equally likely in order for it to be fair. This will help us when creating our own games, because now we know how to find the theoretical probability of compound events. The students in 4a explored the probability of getting possible sums and products when rolling two dice. We realized that a table is really helpful when finding all possible outcomes!

The 5th graders finally saw how functions are necessary in order to get game images to start moving! We used the design recipe to solve a problem related to rocket-height at various times. We even figured out how to make the rocket go faster and slower. The one challenge we are still working on is getting the rocket to start at the top of the screen and move down.