Tag Archives for data analysis
Is college affordable?
Widener Library, Harvard University It’s that time of year again. Students are applying and hopefully getting accepted to college. Students are also graduating and moving on from 12th, 8th or 5th grade to new schools in the fall. Whether you … Continue reading
Opening weekend
Hunger Games and the Avengers are recent popular movies that have made a ton of money during their opening weekend at the box office . Can you tell from its opening weekend how the movie will do in the long … Continue reading
Patriots’ Day
Monday, April 15th is the official holiday this year to remember the Battles of Lexington and Concord that began the Revolutionary War 238 years ago in 1775. (The actual date was April 19th, 1775) Both Paul Revere and the British … Continue reading
Season 12, American Idol
Let your student study American Idol viewing figures over the last eleven seasons. Students compare historical season premier and season finale audience size in several different ways to determine which event has had higher viewership. They consider outliers and judge … Continue reading
Lifespan of a meme, the Harlem Shake
Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd. Now the whole world knows them and their dance … weird. This is the story of the life of a … Continue reading
Shamrock Shake
For Saint Patrick’s Day add a little nutrition math to your celebration. In this post we look at calories, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, and proteins to decide what would be left for our day’s meal allotment after we had lunch and … Continue reading
Halloween Boorito!
One of my favorite foods is a burrito. One of my favorite places to get a Burrito is Chipotle. Their food is delicious and environmentally friendly. For Halloween 2012, Chipotle ran the following promotion and charity drive (screen shot from … Continue reading
Autumnal Equinox
September 22, 2012 is the Autumnal Equinox. It is the time of year when the imaginary plane that might pass through the Earth’s Equator would also travel through the center of the Sun. At this auspicious moment the number of … Continue reading
Back to school
In this investigation students calculate the percentage of the U.S. population (current and historically) that are enrolled in K-12 schools. They are asked to draw conclusions from these variations. Finally, they use their calculations to predict the number of enrolled … Continue reading
Labor Day 2012
In this short activity, students learn the meaning and history of Labor Day as they look for patterns emerging from the Labor Day dates over more than 35 years. Students then use those observed patterns to predict future dates of … Continue reading
Peak of Hurricane season
The official Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1 and doesn’t end until November 30th. Encourage your students to join the conversation, knowledgeably, by using Brian’s latest creation. Students read about hurricane classfications and calculate the possible increases in destruction from various … Continue reading
Perfect 10
The high score of a gymnastic routine used to be 10 but the rules have changed. Watch the video below to see Nadia Comanici perform the first ever perfect Olympic routine in the 1976 Olympics. But the scoring has changed dramatically. … Continue reading
Summer solstice – the longest day
Sunrise on summer solstice at Stonehenge On June 20th, Wednesday evening, at 7:09 EST, the Earth’s North Pole will be tilted as far towards the Sun as it will ever be in the year. This marks the longest day of the … Continue reading
