"At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more. Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves." C.S.Lewis in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Just what is Turkish Delight? Well, thanks to Amazon.com, we ordered a variety to taste and compare. Fortunately, it didn't enchant any of us and lead us astray. Instead, we went on a wonderful Math Adventure to find out which we like best!
Lemon, rose and mint flavors:
We started out voting for our most favorite flavor
by putting a sticky note on the whiteboard.
We discovered that a bar graph needs to be even at the bottom
in order to be read easily.
We added our second favorites and our third/least favorites
The results were in.
Our graph, with the title and its labels, tells the information we gathered
in an easy to read, visual way.
in an easy to read, visual way.
The next day we drew our own graphs on paper.
With little instruction, here is what my math students came up with:
Using Create-a-Graph, we then made computer generated graphs.
It was tricky with the first, second and third choices but we did it.
And we LOVED it!!
And since we were so interested, we took the opportunity to learn how to read different types of graphs and to do our own surveys and graphs.
Here are some of the results:
How fortunate we are at Seabury School that we are free to take a detour from our regular, sequential math plan and focus on what the kids are totally engaged in.
When math class was over on one of the days we worked on these, one student loudly declared,
"NO! I am not stopping math today!" Telling him that he could work on it at home seemed to alleviate his angst over math class ending.
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