Happy Saint Patrick's Day

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

• March 17th 2005
• Created By Miss Welch

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Graphing Marshmallows

• Today you will be using Lucky Charms to complete
  this graphing exercise!
• The skills you will use are
• Counting
• Building and interpreting graphs
• The use of Microsoft excel
• The use of Microsoft Word
• Computation
• Predictions

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Step 1

• I have passed out sandwich bag of Lucky Charms
  and a piece of wax paper to each and every one of
  you.
• Open your bag of cereal and begin separating the
  marshmallows by type on your wax paper.
• Example. Red balloons, Purple horse shoe, etc.
• Use the picture as a guide

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Step 2

• Open the word document that I have provided and
  begin working on the tally sheet.
• Lucky Charms Tally Sheet.doc
• Be sure to save your work

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Step 3

• Return back to the word document you have saved
  and in the space provided follow the prediction
  instructions.
• Make a prediction of which Lucky Charm you think
  will occur the most for the entire class.

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Step 4

• Now that you have determined how many individual
  marshmallows you have, open the Microsoft Excel
  document, I have giving you.
• excel doc.xls
• First in column A write the type of marshmallows
• Second in column B write the amount you had
• Third create a graph that demonstrates your
  findings
• The graph should be color coordinated with the
  color of the marshmallows
• open this document for reference and a visual
  guide
• example of marshmallow graph.xls

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Step 5

• Now that you have completed the graph for your
  marshmallows you need to answer questions 1-3. I
  have provided for you in this word document.
• Click HERE to open the document
• Make sure you save work

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Step 6

• Now that you have finished your own personal
  graph we will begin to create a class wide graph.
• Open this excel document. class wide graph.xls
• As soon as we have all the accounted marshmallows
  you are to create a class wide graph
• The graph should follow the same rules as your
  individual graph except with larger numbers

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Step 7

• Now that you have completed the class wide graph
  you should be able to answer the rest of the
  questions 4-7 in your word document that you
  should have saved.

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Conclusion

• You should have completed
• The separation of individual marshmallows.
• The tally sheet based on your finding
• A prediction and found the answer
• You have create individual and collaborative
  graphs
• A questionnaire
• The skills you have acquired in this exercise
• Counting
• Building and interpreting graphs
• The use of Microsoft excel
• The use of Microsoft Word
• Computation
• Predictions

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NOW YOU CAN EAT!
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