Teachers and students! Welcome to Turner's GOW! I am excited to share the new 2018-19 school year with you. Stay tuned for the first GOW, which will be up the week of August 13-17. 

 GOW    May 14-18, 2018: Teen Summer Employment

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How will my students benefit from this weekly assignment?

Objectives of GOW:

Students will become sharper, analytical thinkers in today's world.

Students are given the opportunity to communicate their critical thinking and analysis through writing and classroom discussion.

Common Core Math Standards MP1-MP4:
  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.

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The Student
Writing Prompt
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Analyze the graph below and write a reflection on w​hat you think the graph is communicating to you. To guide you with your response, start with some observations.

  • What is the topic of the graph?
  • What do the x-axis and y-axis represent?
  • What are some observations you can make based on the graph?
  • What do you foresee happening about 5 years from now?

Questions to ask your students when reading graphs:

  • Is there an upward or downward trend?
  • Are there any sudden spikes in the graph?
  • What is being compared in the graph?
  • What prediction can I make for the future?
  • What inferences can I make about the graph?

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