Mrs. Spence’s Class

Yes - we were able to make a connection to the word Valentine and use it in our probablity lesson today. How…?

Well, we took hearts with a letter on each and put them in a bag. We predicted how many draws from the bag it would take until we pulled all the letters in the word “VALENTINE”. Some guesses were a little low, some were a little high, and some were just right. And that’s OK! We had to justify why we made our prediction and some people just guessed. And that’s OK too! It’s a great strategy to use when you check to see if you were right or not. From our predictions, we found the range of our numbers. We wondered where our particular number would fall…

Many students were able to explain that since there were 9 letters, it might take 2 to 3 times for each letter drawn to actually be able to spell out our word. As it turned out, each class had an average of 23 draws to complete their word. Then we checked which letters were pulled most often. Hm…I wonder why most groups pulled “E’s” and “N’s”?

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Our day ended on a “sweet” note…ahhh…chocolate! Our party was really fun! Thanks to our Homeroom Mothers we had cookies and punch after a long day of learning!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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