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Monday, 17 November 2014

Nov.17

Sample letter. Begin drafting, structuring your ideas. We will continue to conference, revise and edit throughout this week. Print on letterhead & mail-out Friday.

U4: Patterns & Relationships

Complete Figure 1-4 + Table of Values

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Nov.13

Take-home independent tasks to be submitted on Monday, as discussed:

Data management
Geography

Copies of The Little Prince for our novel study can be accessed in many ways:

Over the weekend, I would suggest you re-read chapters 1 up to The King.

Data Management

Data was collected about detached house prices in neighborhood YYZ:

$549,900
$639,500
$599,900
$650,900
$739,900
$799,900
$699,900
$749,900
$599,900
$619,000
$689,500
$609,900
$575,000
$650,000
$659,499

-Arrange the prices in ascending order (least to greatest).

-Identify the median (middle) price.

-Identify the range (difference between the highest and lowest price).

-Calculate the mean (average) price.

Data was collected about 10,000 people that attended the Auto Show:

Male	Female
7,500	2,500

Yearly Salary	Frequency
$25,000-$49,000	1,250
$50,000-$74,999	5,000
$75,000-$99,999	3,000
$100,000-$149,000	500
$150,000++	250

Age	Frequency
Under 18	250
19-35	2,750
36-50	5,500
50-65	1,000
65+	500

Education	Frequency
High School	1,500
College	6,500
University	2,000

Heard About Show	Frequency
TV	6,000
Radio	750
Newspaper	250
Social Media	3,000

Reason For Attending
Buy/lease a new car within next 6 months	1,500
Buy/lease a new car within next year	4,000
For pleasure as auto enthusiast	2,000
Browse new models for possible buy/lease	2,500

Owns 0 cars	500
Owns 1 car	2,750
Owns 2 cars	6,500
Owns 3+ cars	250

Based on this data, the typical person that attended the Auto Show was:

Data was collected at St. Simon:

The parking lot is 30m long.

A typical car is 1.40m wide.

Cars are to be parked 0.90m apart from each other.

How many cars can fit on 1 side of the lot?

Independently or with a partner, begin drafting a personal letter to Seedfolks author Paul Fleishman expressing any of the following:

your overall opinion of his novel
your opinion of any of his characters that stood out to you
your opinion of any life lessons you learned from reading his novel
any questions you wonder about

Be sure to write in the 1st person point of view, either using "I" or "we" i.e. I feel... I think... I really liked... I was moved by.... I was impressed.... etc.

We will conference next week to revise/edit/print on school letterhead to mail out.

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Nov.12

Novel Study: The Little Prince

The Flower:

she is vain, not modest/humble
she plays the victim, fakes cough to make Little Prince feel guilty
she's too proud, has a superior attitude, makes high-maintenance demands
all this masks her sensitivity, insecurity and vulnerability
she eventually expresses her feelings/love to the Prince but he doesn't know how to deal with it and leaves her since at one point he thought she wasn't truthful
what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?

The King:

he is an absolute monarch: his authority/power has no limit
he prides himself on giving orders that are reasonable and can be easily fulfilled
he is absurd and lonely: he wants to make Little Prince his right-hand to be judge, jury and executioner of the rat on planet, yet continuously pardon it since its the only one they have
what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?

Little Prince

open-minded, creative
surprised by grown-ups that are narrow-minded, lack imagination
he asks questions about that which is invisible or not tangible
he is inquisitive and believes in exploring

Monday, 10 November 2014

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?

_________________________________________________________________________________

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.

Friday, 7 November 2014

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