Friday, August 29

Day 9 & 10 Math Skills in Science

I used www.sciencespot.net density Science Starter as a formative assessment for the previous days lesson. 
http://sciencespot.net/Media/Starters/Bryant/density%201.ppt

Our new topic - skills Scientists need including: estimation, significant figures, central tendency, accuracy & precision, anomalous data and percent error.  Students filled out the following notes in their notebooks:

We practiced each skill:
Estimating populations of fish, calculating mean, median, mode and range, working a percent error problem, watching Brain Pop Precision and Accuracy, and correcting the answer to the Science starter for significant figures.

Next: Graphing