Picture Graph Maker

Another cool graphing tool! Click here to go to a picture graph maker.

1) Design your survey question with a maximum of five possible options.
2) Survey at least 20 people.
3) Tally the results.
4) Go to the website.
5) Give your graph a title that tells us what the data is about.
6) Choose a picture from the drop down menu.
7) Choose your scale.
8) Label your options in the text boxes.
9) Click the plus/minus buttons to add the right number of pictures to show the correct tally for each option (taking into account your scale!).
10) Click print preview, snip your picture graph and save it.
11) Log in on EduPlex and post your graph as an image on your Maths portfolio page.

If you are doing this for homework you can either post it to your portfolio and write me a note in your homework book, OR you can print it and stick it in your book.

If you have been in my Maths group for graphing, you may like to survey people about something different which will give you two variables (like we did with the day and month of our birthdays in class) and give the scatter plot generator another try. Go to this website to access it.

Graph Making!

Use this site to make pie graphs online.
This is a good site for making line graphs online.

You can snip them easily and add them to your portfolio for marking, or use it to make graphs for homework.

Ticking off our ICT portfolios!

Everyone is working hard on completing their e-portfolios for the year.

On your maths page you should have your cookii mookii, partii mookii and measurii mookii. You may have other things on there from your split maths class but those three are the most important.

On your science page you should have your ozzii animal mookii, your habii mookii and your shadowii cruncher mookii.

On your writing page you should have your persuavii mookii, your history mookii, your toastii mookii, and your recyclii mookii.

ONLY When you have finished all of these and AND come to see me so we can check it together, you need to start on your wordii mookii and then your survii mookii.

Student Spelling Survey

Hello, fabulous 3/4H!

Today, I'm going to survey YOU! Please click here to do a short survey about spelling this year. Thank you!

A quick round-up!

How exciting - we've hit the half-way mark for the term! We've packed a lot in, with a lot more to go over the next five and a half weeks.

As a little update as to what we're doing in class at the moment - we have just started working on data (surveying, graphing and how to interpret graphs) in Mathematics. Here are some ideas for 'quick maths' tasks for homework if you are looking for a change:

- Design a question with three to five potential answers and survey twenty people (what to have for dinner, or a favourite sport, food or animal are popular options but creativity is welcome!). calling relatives, asking everyone at home or at sport, and having someone over 18 post the question to social media and relay the responses are great ways to collect data). Present the information as a bar or column graph. Have them interpret the data - how many people were surveyed in total? What was the most popular response? What was the least popular? What might a good action to take be based on the data?

- Use the paper, Weather.com.au or another similar site. Choose a city, and make a bar graph, column graph, or line graph tracking its temperature over a week. What was the hottest day? What was the coldest? What season is it there? If you didn't know the date, what might you observe there that would help you to know?

- Have a look at this graph about MnMs. Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of a graph is this and how do you know?
2. What is the x-axis title?
3. What is the y-axis title?
4. Which colour was least common? How many were there?
5. Which colour was most common? How many were there?
6. Which colour had nine MnMs in the packet?
7. How many MnMs were there altogether?
Bonus: you may like to buy a packet of Smarties or MnMs or something similar and make your own graph based on the colours you find.

In writing, we have been rounding up our unit on puns and spoonerisms before we go back to revise narratives. For pun practice, you may like to print or copy the words from this worksheet and see how many homophones/homonyms your child can identify, and what kind of puns they come up with! This can be done in place for spelling for one night but is not compulsory.

I hope this is useful! Bye for now. -Ang.

Worded Quiz

One of our maths groups has been looking at how to solve multi-step problems this week.

If they are looking for some quick maths to do, give this gameshow a try to practise worded problems!

If you finished early, or you find this easy, you might like to try this nature gameshow or this sports gameshow. The maths involved is a little trickier in these ones, so check your work carefully!

You may like to design your own game show questions (using the four steps for problems solving) for your parents, brothers or sisters, or me to try! If you do this, make sure you record the correct answer so we can check our work too =)

Puns

We have been looking at puns this week, and how they improve audience engagement through entertainment. This was a favourite!

34H are using this as the basis for making their own animal puns - they're so punny!