Investigate Summative

Click on  workbook to get the summative workbook.

Year 2013

Thursday Lesson 4

Activity 6 (Investigate stage formative)

BIRTHDAY PARTY PLANNING

Problem: Fatima a 13 year old girl is planning for a birthday party and she has to make several decision on how she will spend the money she is given. She have 5000/- and She is not sure of the number of friends to invite because she have so many. She has an idea of what she could buy but she does not know the amount of the items she could buy. The number of friends and the things and amount of item she could invite and buy respectively depends on the amount of money she is given. Fatima is in a DILEMMA. Fatima has approached YOU because she has heard that you are taking computing technology. She knows technology could be used to help her out in this dilemma.

Problem description: (Describe in one paragraph the problem stated in points above)

Client: Who is your Client?

Design brief: (What will you need to solve the problem above? And why?

Use your workbook to respond to the questions.

Wednesday Lesson 6

Activity 5 -MYP CT Workbook

There are terminologies used when working with spreadsheets the following link can be used as a reference to the definitions of the terms. Fill in the table in the workbook with the definition and use activity 4 to show examples where possible. (Link- http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/excel/3.html)

Tuesday Lesson 6

What do we know about Smart Cells

We shall be going through an assessment on smart Cell.
To check what we know about smart cells and who can use smart cells.
Be ready?
Can you do it in 50 minutes.

Let us see. 

The dropbox link

http://db.tt/DQpgNTN1

 

 

Activity 2

Congratulation for Copying the final data Organization from the notebook to the computer using spreadsheet software.

You must have experiences some benefits of Spreadsheet Software.

In the hand out provided write down some of the benefits of using spreadsheet software to organize and calculate numeric values.

Refer to  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/modelling/0spreadsheetsrev3.shtml

Do not cut and paste. Rephrase the benefits in your own words with reference to your work

 

 

Organization

Organization means that the data is organized in an accessible manner.

 

In your drop box make a folder named MYP CT 2012

 

Save Your files with the names in the following sequence MYPCT  <Name>  ACTIVITY <Number>  <date of file creation>

 

e.g. MYPCT Gioko Anthony Activity 4 23122012 (note the spaces in the file name)

 

In all your mail communication to the teachers place MYPCT in the Subject

 

Share the folder with your teacher gioko@akam.ac.ke

 

 

Activity 1

What comes to you mind when you think about the UNIT Smart Cells?

Give examples of numeric data that is daily communicated to people either on TVs, Newspapers or the mobile phones

ORGANISATION Organize and present the information below to be easily understood in your exercise book.

I have 3000 Kenya Shillings to spend in Kongowea market. I need to buy

5kgs of potatoes, 6 kgs of tomatoes, 7 kgs of onions, 4 kgs of carrots,

3 kgs of sweet potatoes, 4 kgs of ripe bananas, 4 pineapples, 3 water

melons, 5 kgs of oranges, 4 kgs of beans, 10 kgs of rice. The cost of potatoes,

tomatoes, onions, carrots, sweet potatoes, ripe bananas, oranges, beans, rice per kg is

110/=, 70/=, 80/=, 45/=, 65/=, 70/=, 80/=, 95/= and 165/= respectively. 

1 pineapple is 170/= and 1 water melon is 140/=.

INFORMATION: How much is to be spent is total?

DECISION: is the money I have enough YES š/ NO  š

                   : If NO how much money do I need to add?

MORE DECISION: If I was to stick to the 3000/= budget what product(s) can be added or reduced to keep within the budget?

 

Unit: Smart Cells Unit

Introduction;

            The unit introduces students to using software to manipulate, organize, and present numerical data in a meaningful way.

The students are expected to identify real problems surrounding them that can easily be solved using such software.

AOI: Human Ingenuity

Human Ingenuity:  because students will develop solutions that allow

then to effective present numeric values for different situations.

Significant Concept:

Use appropriate software to effectively present and communicate

numeric data in a meaningful way

MYP Unit Question

How does organization and the presentation of numeric data impact

communication and understanding?  

ATL: Thinking, organization and information literacy
AK Focus: Economics for Development: Understand the process of decision making that determines how r

esources are allocated