Those darn peanuts!

Today was great except for those peanuts. I have no idea why they would not cooperate. Oh well. I really liked how the fact that people have troubles using the data that they are given or even knowing what to do with it. I know that I am guilty of just using nice pretty data and parameters that tell me what to do with them. I know that this might frighten my students but in the long run it will help them. I do think that I can use a lab by showing the correlation between the write up and a proof is important. I know that the Washington State exit exam in going to have proofs on them so working with science a bit and showing the relationship will be goo. I do feel I need a few more places besides what we have already been given of places to pull off data or ideas for gathering data in a math classroom.