Friday 25 May 2018

BTS Korean boy band helping us in maths

A new crowd sensation at the recent Billboard Music Awards in America was the
7 member Korean Boy Band who goes by the name of BTS, supposedly to mean
“Burn The Stage”.
They won the Top Social Artist Award, previously set by One Direction and set a new
Guinness World record for Twitter engagements.


I have since used the acronym BTS  (Bottom. Title, Side)
to assist learners in creating a meaningful context with their
NCEA L1 Multivariate Statistics standard worth 4 credits.


Using BTS for the Rugby graph above, we look at the
B (bottom) - weight
T (title) - Rugby
S( side) - forward / back


Our context becomes: The weight of the rugby forwards and the weight of the rugby backs




Using BTS for the Diamonds graph above, we look at the
B (bottom) - price
T (title) - Diamonds
S( side) - average clarity / above average clarity


Our context becomes: The price of diamonds with average clarity and
the price of diamonds with above average clarity.


In addition to this acronym, we have been using a template to guide our thinking
to ensure that learners are providing relevant evidence for this 4 credit Literacy/Numeracy standard.


To date, the data shows that my learners are getting a higher quality grade for this standard
compared to learners in other classes at my school and compared to national data. I have
0% at not achieved
0% at achieved

100% at merit

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