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Ok this is what happened in class today:

We played this game with a die in a die. I know some of you might not understand but I actually found a picture on google :


Okay, here is how you play the game:

Wait! Before you play answer this question - Is this game fair? why?
Okay heres how you play:

1. you have a player and an opponent
2. both players start with 10 points
3. only the player gets to roll the die
4. if the player rolls a 7 he gains 3 points and the opponent loses 3 points
5. if the player rolls anything different from a 7, the player loses 1 point and the opponent gains 1 point
6. you are only allowed 10 rolls
7. if either the player or opponent loses all of his or her points, they automatically lose
8. play 10 games to see who wins the most

Okay, now that you know how to play, you have to answer these questions:
1. Who wins the most? Why?
2. Think Probability
3. Is this game fair?

Here is an example of a game:


Okay I think thats what we mostly did in class because we had bus ridership in the middle of class so we missed a little bit :)


So for the next scribe post I would like :


JUSTIN P.


to do the next scribe post. Thanks! Comment .

Today, in class, we played a game and I think it was called 'Is This Fair?' It didn't exactly have a title. Anyway, before playing we had to read the rules and have an answer to the question 'is this game fair?'


How you play is there's a PLAYER and an OPPONENT. They both have 10 points. There's a pair of dice. That's 2 of them.


The player is the only one that can use the dice. According to Mr. Harbeck, the opponent just smiles and records the scores.



You roll the dice 10 times.

If the PLAYER happens to roll a 7, the PLAYER gets 3 of the OPPONENT's points.

If the PLAYER rolls anything else, the OPPONENT gets 1 point from the PLAYER.

We were supposed to do this game 10 times and see who had the most wins.


--We were called to Bus Ridership--


After the bus ridership, we were asked:


Who won most? Why?
Think probability.
We were asked a second time, is this game fair?

We're supposed to write the answer in our "handy-dandy" notebooks... I think. Either there or on the back of the paper of the game.


I choose Kristin to do the scribe tomorrow!

• Put raw data into ascending order




• sum of all data




• devided by the number in the set of data
  

median

• put raw data into ascending order




• find the middle number in the set of data




• this is the best way to find the average if ther is an outlier

mode

• put raw data into ascending order
  
  


• find the most occuring number




• you can have more than one mode




• you can have no mode

range

• put raw data into ascending order




• smallest number minus the largest number in the set of data




• if there is a large range check if the mean is the best way to find the average of the data

watch how to do mean median and mode

Mean

• Put raw data in ascending order

sum of all data over number of data

• If you have an outlier, it changes the mean

Median

• Put raw data in ascending order


• Find the middle number


• If you have 2 middle numbers, find the average


• Median is good when you have outliers

Mode

• Put raw data in ascending order


• Most common number


• You can have more than 1 mode

Range

• Put raw data in ascending order


• Largest data minus smallest data

Mean

• the sum of a set of values divided by the number of values in the set
  

Median

• the middle number in a set of data ofter the have been order for the data
  

Mode

• the most fire guently occuring number in a set of data .
• there can be than one mode
  

Range

• the positive differnce between the largest and the smallest values in a data set

Here is a great video explaining Mean,Median,Mode

Mr. Kuropatwa introduced me to the world of Scribe Posts. It is an essential part of the Grade 8 Math Classroom. You will be expected to write one scribe post every 30 classes or about 4 a year. That doesn't sound like to much does it.

A Scribe post is

The assignment is simply to post a brief summary of what happened in class each day. A different student is responsible for the daily scribe post and they end their post by choosing the next scribe. The first scribe is a volunteer. The teacher's daily involvement is limited to updating a post called The Scribe List which is at the top of the links list in the sidebar of the class's blog.


To complete a scribe post the student must

Write a brief summary of what we learned in class today. Include enough detail so that someone who was away sick, or missed class for any other reason, can catch up on what they missed. Over the course of the semester, the scribe posts will grow into the textbook for the course; written by students for students. Remember that as each of you write your scribe posts. Ask yourself: "Is this good enough for our textbook? Would a graphic or other example(s) help illustrate what we learned?" And remember, you have a global audience, impress them.

Here are examples of good scribe posts Pythagoras Scribe One Day In Math Algebra Masterpiece

Here are some scribe posts that have made The Scribe Post Hall of Fame.

When you are done your scribe post choose another student to be the scribe and label your post scribepost.

Mean

• the mean is the mathematical average of a set of numbers. The average is calculated by adding up two or more scores and dividing the total by the number of scores.

Median

• The median is the score located at the center of a distribution.

Mode

• The mode is the most frequently occuring score in a distribution.

This is a video explaining the MMM