Monday, February 20, 2012

Sweet Mathematics

To celebrate Valentine’s week, we graphed our conversation hearts by color (and then had a tasty treat!).  After collecting our own data, we combined all of our totals using this interactive talking(!) calculator from PBS Kids.

There are a ton of graphing tools out there that are perfect for IWBs, but this Primary Grapher was perfect for me to pull up in the middle of a lesson and quickly create a graph!  Because of its simple interface, I could easily change the Y values as we continued to push the 100 mark.

Checkout Brain Pop, Jr.'s short introductory clip and all of their extras (at the bottom).  KB Connected and Mr. Nussbaum both have more links for graphing in the classroom.