Mini SOLO Math Project: Data & Graphing!

To show our understandings of data, probability, and graphing, each student will do a mini SOLO math project!

The goal is to show your ability to collect, analyze, and present data on a topic of your choice.

Steps and Requirements:

Choose a topic you can find out data about. Ms. D will give you some examples in class. It will need to be a number-based set of data, such as measuring something using the metric system, or finding out the number of something.
Gather your data in a tally table in your journal.
Look at the data and find the mean, median, and mode of your data.
Find out the probability of having a specific response or measurement in your data collection. Use fractions, decimals, and percentages in your journal to show your work around probability.
Decide what kind of graph you will do. Ms. D will give you a piece of graph paper to put it on.
Complete a graph, making sure to include all the important parts of a graph, as well as putting on the graph paper your results for mean, median, and mode, as well as probability, including the fraction, decimal, and percentage.
Post a picture of your graph on an e-portfolio labeled “Solo Graph Project.” Write a 5 sentence minimum statement about your graph and what you can conclude from your data (what can you say about the data?).

Criteria:

I am able to collect data using a table, and to communicate my questions and data collection well in my journal, such that others can read the data clearly.
I am able to make a graph with all of the essential parts.
I am able to make a graph that is clear, aesthetic, and neat, so my ideas are communicated clearly.
I am able to use fractions, decimals, and percentages to express probability (at a minimum, I am able to do fractions and decimals)
I am able to make a conclusion from my data and communicate it to others.

This shouldn’t take us very long to do, so it will be due November 10th. We will work on it concurrently with our PowerPoint and game projects.