For my weekly work this week I wanted to focus on statistics. And I'm a huge Tigers fan, so I decided to look up the team statistics and work from there. I found all of the information on this website: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=2013&t=DET
I started out with the list of their heights. From that, I found the mean, median, mode, and range. This picture is of the work I did written out.
HEIGHTS OF TIGERS PLAYERS
Median: 74 in
Mean: 74 in
Mode: 71 in
Range: 9 in
Median: 74 in
Mean: 74 in
Mode: 71 in
Range: 9 in
Reflection:
In this blog post, I was doing math by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of the heights of the baseball players. I had to convert the heights on the list from feet to inches, and then categorize them in a way that I could use the data. In a way, I had to collect this data because I found it all, but it was mostly already compiled for me on the website. This took me awhile to do, especially with the converting the heights and such, so I didn't do as much with it as I had hoped. There is a lot of usable information on the website, and I could do a lot more things with statistics involving those stats! It is also cool to see that you can make lessons and material relevant to students because you can pretty much find math everywhere. I will probably do more work with this information in the future. And I could probably explain my work more clearly, how I found the information and stuff. Mostly, the work I did was on the piece of paper.
In this blog post, I was doing math by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of the heights of the baseball players. I had to convert the heights on the list from feet to inches, and then categorize them in a way that I could use the data. In a way, I had to collect this data because I found it all, but it was mostly already compiled for me on the website. This took me awhile to do, especially with the converting the heights and such, so I didn't do as much with it as I had hoped. There is a lot of usable information on the website, and I could do a lot more things with statistics involving those stats! It is also cool to see that you can make lessons and material relevant to students because you can pretty much find math everywhere. I will probably do more work with this information in the future. And I could probably explain my work more clearly, how I found the information and stuff. Mostly, the work I did was on the piece of paper.
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