Today1 was the “Burgers and Boxplots” lesson. I love this one, for obvious reasons. 2
It made me happy to know that a much larger proportion of my students are now familiar with Carls Jr.3 and In-N-Out than in previous years. :)
The Mega Tamago gets ’em every time, though:4
Mmmmm hmmmmm. 5
Oh, the point of the lesson was to analyze the distribution of fat grams in a number of fast-food burgers, and to identify the median / quartiles / 5-number summary, run the 1.5IQR outlier test, and sketch a modified box plot.6 7
. . .
When I stop to think — and breathe — it blows my mind a bit when I realize that we’re already in week 6. I know, it’s early, but… the overwhelming feeling I have is that the rest of this year is going to go by far too quickly.
- and yesterday, for A-day [↩]
- Because I’m a burger freak. Now you know. [↩]
- The Double Western: 63 grams of fat! [↩]
- 65 grams of fat! [↩]
- Of course, we needed to point out that as with any McDonald’s burger, the picture makes it look WAY bigger — and nicer — than the actual thing. I told them to use Google to look for real pictures of the thing just for kicks. [↩]
- Incidentally, the Wendy’s Baconator Triple has 81 grams of fat. That might be an outlier… [↩]
- A student asked me today if I was familiar with the Gourdough’s Burger. I had to explain that this was a wonderful creation that unfortunately came into existence too late in my life… sigh. [↩]