Nov 10

Data Management

Team Task 1

Simon Enterprises Inc.

Position	Yearly Salary $
Chief Executive Officier	257,550
Chief Financial Officer	136,450
President	96,350
Vice President	90,150
Treasurer	88,400
Financial Analyst	87,200
Project Manager	83,200
Accounting Dept.	76,850
Supervisor	64,850
Marketing Dept.	58,250
Executive Assitant	53,000
IT Support Team	49,500
Web Designer	48,500
Social Media Promoter	46,000
Sales Director	44,700
Human Resources Director	43,550
Junior Executive	42,700
Buyer	41,000
Logistics	40,300
Customer Service Agent	34,000
Clerk Receptionist	28,000
Caretaker	26,500

Calculate the mean salary.

Calculate the median salary.

Do most of the salaries fall into a specific range? (mode)

If you were hiring a new employee what salary would you use to entice them?

If you were an employee and wanted a raise what would you use to justify your request for more money?

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Team Task 2

Determine the mean, median and mode height (cm) of the following divisions:

• Gr.1 Gr.3
• Gr.4 to Gr.6
• Gr.7 to Gr.8
• St Simon Staff

How many people will make up your sample group to represent the whole division?

Once data has been collectected, displayed on a graph/table/chart and analyzed, your group is to consolidate it into an artefact that can be shared with others for feedback, as I did here:
example 1 video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6QfeFDTuAE&list=UU-u4mR3_H1MzpKNHdtbrnbA

example 2 prezi
https://prezi.com/ykxtkufw5odw/mean-median-mode-example-2/

• include your goal: to determine the mean, median & mode heights of students in the ____ division of St. Simon school
• identify the sample group you collected data from
• select a graph/chart/table of your choice to display data collected in an easy to understand manner
• show your calculations
• include pictures of students measured and your team

Criteria

Collaboration & Technology ·         Creative use of an appropriate multi-media application to showcase data collections using a combination of text, diagrams, calculations, and/or voice ·         Evidence of collaboration

Content ·         Identify goal of task ·         Describe sample group to represent entire division ·         Graph/table/chart to display data effectively ·         Calculations of mean, median, mode ·         Supporting pictures

Presentations begin tomorrow morning.  
Mr. Howlett will be in to observe your progress.

Nov7

Novel Study: The Little Prince

Chp.1-5 What is really important in life?
• Don’t forget about your inner child, love that inner child as an adult
• Appreciate and continue to use your imagination, creativity
• Look beyond the superficial, think outside the box
• Follow your dreams, cultivate your passions/interests
• Be true to yourself
• Patience is truly a virtue that needs to be developed
• Maintain your innocence, naivety, sense of curiosity 
• Don’t take everything too seriously
• Our know-how is not measured by our image; you are not more or less of a person based on how you look; we are not defined by image
• Having the 411 about someone should not always include status and economic background; we don’t see the sheep inside the crate.
• Take time to reflect, don’t get caught up in the monotonous structure of your day
• Monitor our habits, behaviours, attitudes to ensure they don’t become negative or that we neglect dealing with them head-on because then it could grow and spiral out of our control: we can’t get lazy and need to take care of the little things in life before they escalate into big problems

If you want a raise in pay, you would refer to mode $750 since it's the lowest.

If you are hiring, you would refer to mean $1250 since it's the highest.

Orange was favored the most.  Grapefruit was favored the least.

Looking at the mean and median, overall 16 juice boxes are sold per week.

3.7 Workbook

Textbook pg.110 #4, 5, 6b bullets

Nov 5

3.5 workbook

mean:  sum of all data then divide by total number

median: arrange in ascending order then identify middle number

mode: data that you see repeated most often

Nov 5

Seedfolks Reading Response: Offering a Personal Opinion

I am impressed by Wendell and his attitude towards life.  Although he has lost both his wife and child, he remains positive and hopeful.  If this tragedy happened to me, I think I would remain depressed for quite a long time – it would be difficult to get over.  I really admire the fact that Wendell chooses to focus on the present and future, not “moan about” his tragic losses.  I respect his decision to direct his attention on what he can change (growing the Gibb Street Garden) and not repeatedly dwell on what he can’t change (death of wife/son).  I feel he has a good heart and that helping others in the neighborhood, will help him feel better and give him a purpose in life.  He teaches me that everyone must move on with living and not get caught up thinking about or reliving the past – no good will come of this.  We must work towards building a positive future.

Now, select any 1 character of your choice and offer a personal opinion of him/her with supporting reasons.  Lined paper or MS Word, take your pick and submit. When you are offering your personal opinion, your sentences must be written in the 1^st person point of view, using the pronoun “I”.  NO RETELL.

TRY 3.5 WORKBOOK

Faux Stained Glass

Nov 3

Novel Study: Seedfolks Movie Trailer Task

• collaborative 
• creative
• MovieMaker or iMovie
• promote story, setting, key characters, author, themes
• combination of captions, pictures, music, video
• save as windows media video file
• sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tqwVOhcNVY&list=UU-u4mR3_H1MzpKNHdtbrnbA

Oct.30

Collaborative Math Task involving:

• collecting data
• analyzing data
• rates, equivalent rates
• measurement, conversions 
• multiplication, addition
• guess & check
• supporting diagrams

Great collaboration!

Oct.29

Math: Data Management Team Task

Goal: To collect and analyse data to offer possible solutions to a problem

Your team is to collect information about (and document with diagrams) about St Simon’s staff parking lot, namely:

·        dimensions (metres, feet, inches) of space available to staff for parking length x width

·        dimensions of typical/average car that parks here length x width

·        measure the current spaces between cars currently and decide whether it’s sufficient/comfortable enough for entry/exit

·        total number of cars currently parked there (we have a staff consisting of 35 cars approximately)

Using your data/diagrams as support, you are to offer your teachers constructive suggestions about how this space could be more effectively maximized or managed, seeing that the currently line markings are not adhered to, nor visible in the winter and too wide.

What do we see?

Here’s what we suggest:

double-check your measurements 

length x width of lot, cars

and the

distance you would like between cars 2.5' 

Continue working on your:

•  Seedfolks quotes (due Monday)
•  Science mixtures chart (due Friday)
•  Math graphs handout 
•  Math oral presentation target customer of product (due Monday)

Oct.28

Data Management/Oral & Visual Task
Presentations begin Friday

Choose any product that interests you – that you own, use or want to buy.

Become the target customer of that product and dialogue (with supporting stats) what makes you the ideal consumer of that product.

Ms. Commisso's example:

I am a 28 year old single career woman. I bought this Michael Kors watch because it appeals to me for many reasons. I am career-focused and work in a business professional environment, and my watch reflects the type of image and clothing I am expected to have at my workplace. I heard about the watch from a catalogue I receive in the mail. I really like this watch because it’s a high-end fashion item, which is something that interests me and tells other people that I make a lot of money and have a college diploma. Wearing this watch gives me power and makes other people respect me. It’s very pretty, fashion-forward, and valuable: 3 things that I look for in a product when I’m shopping.  I can relate to the actual ad below:

Science: Mechanical vs Solutions

Complete chart of household products, submit by Friday.

Seedfolks: Last quote (submit all quotes on Friday)

"The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes, unless they're known to be friends.  Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices"

Who said this and what is your opinion of this character?

Oct.24

Science Lab: Mechanical mixtures vs Solutions

Working collaboratively in your new group of 4, you are to:
-go to text pg.27
-read "try this: make a mixture"
-use the information to compose your lab's Purpose, 3 Hypothesis (what you think will happen)
-after reading the Procedure, decide how you will showcase your lab's Observations i.e. table with actual pix
-at this point, conduct your experiment
-in Analysis, answer what you learned about mixture types and how accurate your hypothesis was

Oct.23

Novel Study: Seedfolks   Work on character profiles of Curtis, Nora/Mr.Miles and Maricela.  We will discuss them further tomorrow.

Geography: Niagara Escarpment presentations tomorrow or submit hardcopy.

Math: Data Management Food Show presentations tomorrow.

Math: Data Management target customer of a product/store of your choice submit tomorrow.