GRASPS Title: Second Grade Mathematics Graphs

Submitted by: S.C.B.

Date: 6/30/08

Performance Task-GRASPS

Goal— You will find out if there are too many brown M&Ms in a fun-sized plain M&M bag.

Role—You will be a market researcher.

Audience—You will report your results to the head of the marketing department at M&M corporation.

Situation—The marketing department at M&M corporation is worried that there are too many brown M&Ms in a fun-sized plain M&M bag. They need data to know whether this is truly happening. The marketing department has asked you to be a market researcher and to graph the data you collected. If we find too many brown M&Ms in each bag, the M&M Corporation will need to vary the colors.   

Product/Performance—You will take your fun-sized plain M&M bag and count how many M&Ms are red, blue, yellow, green, brown, and orange. You will then use the M&Ms in your bag to make a picture graph. The head market researcher (your teacher) will take a photograph of your picture graph. You will use the same data from your picture graph to create a bar graph in Microsoft Excel. After you have finished your picture and bar graphs, you will need to decide if there are too many brown M&Ms in your bag. There are too many brown M&Ms if there are five or more brown M&Ms. After all the market researchers have made their picture and bar graphs, there will be a discussion about the results. Afterwards, each researcher will write to the head of the marketing department to show them your picture and bar graphs and explain your findings. 

Standard/Criteria for Success—see rubric

 

 

M & M Marketing Researcher Rubric

 

Excellent

Good

Needs Work

Participation
Following directions and actively engaged in activity

 Followed directions at all times and was actively engaged in activity.

Followed directions sometimes and sometimes stayed focused on activity

Followed directions rarely and was not engaged or focused on activity

Graph Accuracy
Entering data correctly and organizing graph properly (Title, M&M colors, Numbers)

Entered data correctly and organized graph properly

Entered some data in correctly and organized parts of the graph properly

Entered no data correctly and did not organize the graph properly

Letter

Letter is clearly written about the graph and the information is correct.

Letter to the head of the marketing department is clearly written about the graph and the information is correct.

Letter to the head of the marketing department is somewhat written about the graph and the information is somewhat correct.

Letter to the head of the marketing department is not written about the graph and the information is not correct. The letter is off-topic.

 

                                 Example of Bar Graph from Microsoft Excel