Math Investigation LA JG
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Students investigated how much paper is used by middle school students in a year. They surveyed teachers to determine the average paper usage per student per week in different classes. In total, middle school students use approximately 490,672 pieces of paper per year, equivalent to killing 58.8 trees. The investigation found that math and German classes used the most paper. The students concluded that while many talk about environmental issues like global warming, their own paper usage contributes to the problem and they can help by reducing waste.
Math Investigation LA JG
- 1. By: Joy and Laura
- 2. Introdution Every year we students waste 490672 pieces of paper, which kills 58.8 trees. We have investigated how much paper students in middle school use every year. With this information we figured out how much they use in a year and how many trees that kills in a year. We choose to investigate this because everyone always talks about recycling and global warming but they never realize how much they waste themselves. We investigated this by going to every teacher and asking them how much paper one of their students uses in a week the we multiplied taht by the of students per class and then multiplied that by the amount of classes they have. Then we added it up.
- 3. Math classes Mr.Delesio: 8 x20=160x4=640 Mrs. Coangelo: 10x20=200x4=800 Mrs. Jewitt: 5x20=100x4=400
- 4. English classes Mr. Steffan: 10x20= 200x4= 800 Mr. Bruce: 3x20= 60x3= 180 Mr. Cubitit: 8x20= 160x4= 640
- 5. Science Miss Abella: 8x20 = 160x4= 640 Miss Watkins: 6x20= 120x3= 360
- 6. Humanities: Mrs.Cattel: 4x20= 80x5= 450 Mrs.Tiwana: 6x20= 40x5= 200
- 7. German : Frau Hay: 7x20=140x6= 840 Frau Henderson: 16x20= 320x6= 1920 Frau Bisig: 8x20= 160x6= 960
- 8. French Mrs. Alberici: 2x20=400x12= 480
- 9. Music\ choir: Mr.Smith: 2x60= 120
- 10. Table: Subjects: Amount of paper (sheets): Math 1840 English 1620 Science 1000 Humanities 650 German 3720 French 480 Choir/music 120
- 11. Amount of paper used:
- 12. Pie chart
- 13. Mean, median, Range and mode Median: 640 Mode:640 Range:1800 ( 1920-120= 1800) Mean: 629.06 (120 + 180 + 2oo + 360 + 400 + 450 + 480 + 640 + 640 + 640 + 800 + 800 + 840 + 960 + 1920 = 9430 divided by 15= 629.06 )
- 14. Results The results of our investigation are that middle school uses amount of paper every week and amount of paper every year.
- 15. Conclusion We learned from this investigation that we middle schoolers might be talking a lot about global warming but are doing nothing to help it. We learned that we should be more cautios on the amount of paper that we use. We can use this data to save trees from being wasted, by finding ways to save paper by doing more things on the computer for example. Instead of then printing it out we can send it to the teacher.