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Statistics! Tell me truthfully if you like statistics. I'm sorry if you do because... I don't. Well after the lessons in math class I'm not as weary as I was before. In my experience math teachers are really good at making statistics all about a formula and nothing personal or relatable. Why? Statistics should be personal and should be easy to connect to. Thank goodness for my current math teacher who knows how to teach statistics. Anyway, here is a great introductory lesson to statistics. It's fun, simple, and again like my last post involves a snack! Everybody loves a snack, especially when it's M&M's. For this particular activity, we needed a fun size pack of M&M's and the packet/worksheet. We started off by making conjectures of which M&M color would occur most or least, as well as if we thought our individual data would match the classes as a whole data. My guess was that Brown would occur most often because of its color closeness to the c...

At the start of the semester, we did a Healthy Fish activity. This activity was fun and interactive. Plus we got a snack when we were finished;)  This activity involved a small snack sized pack of rainbow goldfish and a provided worksheet. It was interesting to see everyone's various reactions to organizing the goldfish at the start. As you can see I organized mine by color and in a pattern. I tend to like things neat and organized, and visually appealing. The object of the activity (which is listed at the top of the worksheet provided to us) was; to understand how probability was determined, to understand experimental versus theoretical probability, to understand the properties of probability, and to understand mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events. We went through the series of questions and completed the worksheet guiding us to understand each of the objectives. The questions were based on the fact that the fish represented healthy and sick fish. The gr...