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Am I smarter than a 6th grader?

2/10/2012

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Am I smarter than a 5th grader?  Yes! I taught 5th grade for years.  Am I smarter than a 6th grade?  Uuum, that has yet to be seen. 

This year,  I am teaching 6th grade math online.  I have been loving it, this entire year…until this week.  We are in our Statistics unit.   6th grade statistics, how hard can that be?  The lesson I am planning is about outliers.  EASY!  If an amount in the data set is way larger or smaller than the rest of the numbers, it’s an outlier.    So I am looking through the book, and they are asking about the IQR and the quartiles and giving me some formulas, huh?  Am I looking in the wrong book?…SIGH…. I will be smarter than a 6th grader by the time I teach this…I hope…

UPDATE:
Well, I mastered this 6th grade lesson and unit.  I even used some sample questions from a college website.   Yes, that's how hard this unit was!  My students understood it by the end and that is the important part.  I'm ready for next year!

 
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Dana
2/10/2012 07:29:11 am

Hello, I know a 6th Grader, and based on his grades YOU ARE SMARTER, yet he is capable of so much more. He needs to remember his brain WILL NOT oozze out of his head if he actually uses it SMH .... SIGH

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