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dy/dan » Blog Archive » I Need To Get A Collection Of These Going — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:08:24 +0000

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By: adog

adog — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:28:45 +0000

Thank you for the post! I dig the bit on classroom use!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:08:30 +0000

We should take pity on the person responsible for that SOTU chart, they must have taken AP Stats back in high school, as this chart from college board would suggest (they did the same thing!) College Board AP Math and Science Improvement For Science, I get the ratio of the number of students getting 3's or better in '01 compared to '10 to be 0.467, and for the circles I get the ratio of the diameters to be 0.471, but the ratio of the areas would be ~0.22 I'm but a lowly physics teacher, but now Dan has me seeing the world in 'math.'

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:22:07 +0000

This is awesome!

By: Finally Some Answers on Where My Money Goes | Where Does My Money Go

Finally Some Answers on Where My Money Goes | Where Does My Money Go — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:43:05 +0000

[…] The people at Where Does My Money Go? had something that matched my idea of a list of spending. The list they found on the Treasury website showed different government departments and how much they had spent on certain types of public services. I helped to interpret this and the team went on to make this colourful interactive display. […]

By: Rick Harrington

Rick Harrington — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:16:54 +0000

What a great “catch” on your part. Typical use of “eye candy” to exaggerate a point. As others have said, this will make a great warm-up lesson for my middle school math students:)

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:04:28 +0000

I am excited to be using this example with teachers tomorrow:-) The ideas here match with several grades of our junior high math curriculum, particularly in the area of circle geometry and misrepresenting statistics. I will be sharing the infographic without the circle representing the US GDP and see what size they predict it should be. Then look at what was actually shared in the SOTU.

Another question: Why were these particular countries chosen. Does the choice of country exaggerate the large US GDP? I don’t know enough about this topic to determine whether these are appropriate comparisons. Can someone answer this?

By: Boule japonaise et PIB

Boule japonaise et PIB — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:48:37 +0000

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