2. + Introduction Last year, Graded middle school and other
schools around the world completed a challenge success survey. This
year, 6th grade math teacher Ms. J pulled out eight questions from
the survey and had the sixth grade fill them out. I am a reporter
who has studied these responses closely and have made the following
article about what I found at Graded. Mode= Approximately 75%
3. + Graphs Circle Graph
4. + Graphs (continued) Bar Graph
5. + Graphs (continued) Line Graph
6. + Graphs (continued) Frequency Table
7. + Analyses Graph analysis
8. + Analyses (continued) From an administrators point of
view..
9. + Analyses (continued) From a parents point of view..
10. + Analyses (continued) From a students point of view..
11. + Misleading Graphs During my visit at Graded, I was
invited to sit in at a teacher- administrator meeting and a class I
saw the following graphs being used.
12. + Misleading Graphs (continued) Students made this graph to
convince teachers to give them less homework. Their title is
convincing, there is chart clutter and there is no zero
baseline.
13. + Misleading Graphs (continued) I found this graph at a
teacher-administrator meeting, being presented by a teacher showing
how useful homework is to students. This is extremely misleading.
Take a second to look at the intervals. They are uneven. The title
is planting the seed in your mind that makes you believe that
students find this much meaning in homework. And where is the zero
baseline? (Next slide)
14. + Misleading Graph (continued)
15. + Follow-Up Questions Now, as a reporter, I must think
deeper. What are some follow- up questions? Follow-Up Question #1
Follow-Up Question #2
16. + Citations PowerPoint (As used for presentation) QuickTime
Player (For audio) Google Docs (Used to hold my thinking) Google
Presentation (Used to hold my thinking)