Hurray, Computer Lab 3000

Today in Computer Lab, I reviewed two old math topics, and practiced more on another. The class was sent to Bite-Sized Math, where three activities were waiting for us. The first had to do with frequency diagrams. Pie charts, bar graphs, and the like were reviewed, through the scenario that a village had been overcome by the plague, and we had to tally up who was infected and how much of the cure was needed. These charts are used often in real life, like for organizing how many kids take the bus to school, or measuring the success of a new brand of cereal. The second was a review of median, mode, mean, and range, which, of course, we have been learning in class. Needless to say, it wasn't too difficult, but it was still a very good way to practice the math. While I still am not sure how it's relevant to real life, I'll guess it's something highly important. And lastly, the third taught probability. This means the likeliness of something, and an example would be: the likeliness of winning the lottery is the same as developing a flesh-eating disease and being mauled by a grizzly bear and a polar bear, all in the same day. See? Real life. Probability could also be used for deciding what the chances of a racer winning a race against 16 others is (1/17, by the way). In short, I learned many useful skills today, and don't plan on forgetting them soon.