Blog 3

1. I am doing my blog on The Great Graph Contest, by Loreen Leedy. This book is a book about a lizard (beezy) and a snail (chester) who visit there friend Gonk, Gonk is in the middle of making a graph, Beezy and Chester are infatuated with it so they decide it would be a good idea to see who can make the best graphs, thus planning a graph contest. Beezy and Gonk go all over town making different types of graphs (pie chart, line graph, bar graph.. ect) with materials they find all over the place. At the end of the book Chester is left to decide whose graphs where the best, he makes his own bar graph to determine who the winner is. At the end of the book Chester comes to the conclusion that they both had the best graphs and were both the winner

2. The Graph Contest showed great ways to make different graphs based off of different things. For example, Beezy went to a flower shop and surveyed people on what they were going to do with there flowers. 3 says they would plant them, 2 said they would sell them and, 1 said they would eat them. He then went on the make a bar graph to display there results. This book is a good first step for children as they begin there adventures into math. Just as we graph results to better understand the differences between two things (decrease or increase) the book uses graphs to also distinguish the differences between everyday  items

3. I believe literature is an easy way to understand key concepts because it is a more fun way of learning, it is also easier to look back on and understand better. Because literature is something straight out of a book and not out of someone mouth you can be reassured that the answers are correct and you don't have to worry about learning it someone else's way (different people have different teaching styles) which can sometimes be hard for some people.