I Heart Mistakes

I substituted for a teacher's aide in a 2-3 classroom today. The assignment for the children was to graph the average monthly high temperatures of a U.S. city. This is what one student turned in:

I love it, purely on its artistic merit. A beautiful graph, no? It's like modern art.

7 comments:

  1. I think that's a pretty good use of a pie chart. I clearly see most of the hear occurs in summer and not much heat is in winder. That's thinking out of the box.

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  3. Yes, the pie is out of the box. This student has a definite future in the FOD's Bureau of Misleading Data Representations.

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  4. It's rather nice, isn't it. Also, like B&B I feel that this graphic representation tells me all I need to know. I would have preferred if the colours were more seasonal though.

    Just yesterday I was suggesting to some bigwigs that a fancy audit report use the scale 0 to 100%, and not 0 to the mythical 110%.

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  5. I especially like the fact that this kid spelled Albuquerque correctly, but "tempatures" instead of "temperatures."

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  6. I, too, am a great fan of the spelling error on the easier word. And, the more I look at it, the more it does make sense to me, as a reasonable graph. Strictly speaking, she did fulfill the qualifications of the assignment, no?

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  7. I really hope they measure tempature in degrees Fahrenheit. Otherwise Albuquerque may be experiencing some problems.

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