Math Applet - Grades 3-5

Math Applet grades 3-5:

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.5/index.htm

Summary:
Collecting and understanding data is the main concept in this activity. This particular example used weather as a main source, but any other type of information can be used. Students also learn how to label and create the graphs or spreadsheets. These graphs and spreadsheets can be compared with one another to see what every person interpreted and understood. There are different ways to intemperate mathematical equations, and students can have different answer but these answers could all be correct.

Critique:
The ideas given in this example were really good, and I liked how they could be manipulated and changed depending on what is being taught. Different tasks that will be learned are: how to collect data, organize the data and create graphs of the information collected. All these tasks are important in the development of today's society. These applet also allows students to create different types of data and interpret them differently. After the students have collected the data they can create different mathematical problems and equations that have to do with data.