No End of the Year Class "Party" for us

My students have all been clamoring for a "party".


They expect me to buy pizza, they bring chips and soda. Classroom parties are just big food fests.


So many of my students are really quite overweight. If I were to buy them pizza, they would eat it in class and still go to lunch and eat the horrendous food there.


I will NOT be buying pizza, nor allowing the chips and sodas in my room.


I think we will play games. Active Games.

from: http://www.katrinatribute.info/statistics-of-childhood-obesity-is-getting-higher.html

Cost of Iraq War: How many seconds of war = teacher's salary

Digging around I find that there are no hard, cold facts readily available about the cost of the Iraq war. Depending on political bent and accounting practices, the numbers range from the billions to more than 3 trillion.


I found this table, which broke down the numbers in an interesting fashion:

It got me thinking that the average teacher's salary would be covered in less than 20 seconds. Wow!

The Math (and use?) of Linkedin?

I am a newbie to Linkedin.

In fact, I didn't want to join yet another social network (same connections, new passwords = ugh!)

But it seems that it might be a good idea to join, set up a professional network as I look to spread out my wings a little and try towards new horizons.

So I looked around and saw this info graphic ( I like to work these things out via NUMBERS ).

From: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6147/LinkedIn-by-the-Numbers-Infographic.aspx

Still I am not convinced of the role that Linkedin has for education.

If you know, please clue me in.

Along the way: connect with me via twitter: pepepacha

Thanks

Game of Thrones Math

Game of Thrones is a great show, thanks to its heavy reliance on character development, political intrigue, and suspense – not to mention the excellent acting from all parties involved. I will say that it beats the book for me, which is not something I say lightly. The story moves more fluidly and the characters are easier to distinguish in the show when compared to the book. I watch it on my iPad HBO GO app, so I don’t have to be a slave to scheduling. 

Game of Thrones started out with somewhat underwhelming ratings, those ratings have steadily risen with every new episode.

The ratings, courtesy of EW.com: The Game of Thrones experienced a ratings high with 2.6 million people watching the 9 p.m. Combined with its encore, Thrones was up to 3.3 million viewers for the night, with the show averaging 8.1 million viewers per episode across all platforms

The premiere pulled in around 4.2 million viewers, so doing the math: 

8.1 ÷ 4.2 means approximately a 93% rise in viewership. Of course, this is based on a statistically count of all supposed “viewers” on cable. HBO can potentially know how many viewers they have via their HBO GO site, but they can't know with the same certainty the number of viewers on cable itself. They know the numbers of subscribers, but have to do additional studies to know which shows these viewers are watching.

At any rate, it is good enough statistics to get the show renewed for next year, making this Math Teacher happy.

HBO: Game of Thrones: http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html

Found Math: Student Protest Poster

Vermont per student education budget = $15,500 +
California per student education budget = $7,500

Do the math!

Big Fat Math

At Big Fat Math you can learn how much activity it will take to burn-off fast food, soft drink and junk food products.


http://www.bigfatmath.com/index.aspx

Wonder what vs wonder how?

Via @republicmath 

Found Math Object