Lesson 5 Sam and the newspaper
Lesson plan
| Piagetian Level | Learners Thinking and abstract of the activity | ||
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| Relating modes and spreads to hypotheses about their meaning in context. |
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| 3A Early Formal |
Mode and spread are the variables to look for. |
‘I think newspapers make it easy to read; we ought to take a book we find hard and test that’ |
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| 'Hypothesis' bigger sample is fairer comparison. |  'So maybe word length doesn't measure how hard a text is' |
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| 2B* Concrete Generalisation |
Is the sample representative? Sample size may affect findings |
'We were right in thinking that a bigger sample would give us a truer picture' 'Now with the bigger sample we can see that word lengths are the same' |
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"five is the most common- the mode" |
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| 2B Mature concrete |
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| Middle concrete |
Episode 1 Sam's story and newspaper |
Episode 2 Considering the sample size |
Episode 3 Comparison of samples |