Presently the 7th grade math teacher in our middle school does a unit on ratios, proportions and graphing. He has his students create a survey with a few questions. The students then walk around the building with a clipboard and ask people in the halls to answer the questions. Once they have have a good sampling they then return to the classroom and create graphs.
This lesson could easily be transfered to Google Surveys and by doing so would provide some additional learning. There is certainly value in students learning how to create electronic surveys. Probably the most valuable portion of making this electronic is that it will allow students to play with the various graphs and talk about which graph best represents their data.
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