I enjoyed my math class today. After going onto Gapminder we were placed in groups and had to make a graph that "tells a story" That's it! Seemed simple enough, right? But what I found out was that we all read a graph differently and we want to correlate different information. It made me realize that our minds all work in very different ways. Once my group was able to agree on what we wanted to display, how to label, what colors to use, etc.. we felt that we had it all covered! What we didn't realize until it was pointed out to us was that we failed to place the year of our findings! OMG! What a major mistake! But you forget even the simplest things when you are trying to work with so many different minds and are attempting to get all the facts.
Walking around and seeing everyones graphs I was amazed at the info that was displayed. Some graphs I could tune in to very easily when some of my group members could not. And there were other graphs that I had to rely on my group to explain to me.
In the end when we all came together as one our professor stated, "It is important to get your students to read a graph, but it is more important that a graph can stand on its own!"
I get that! Now, if I can only be taught to read a road map!
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