The Sports section and the weather page have lots of data that you can use to practice computation. Here are some activities to help you sharpen your math skills.
Use the E-edition index to find the weather information. Then you can do these computation exercises.
List temperatures in the weather information from lowest to highest.
- Choose ten cities listed and use their temperatures to find the median and the average of the ten you chose.
- Choose ten temperatures and convert Fahrenheit to Celsius using this formula. Tc = (5/9)x(Tf-32); Tc = temperature in degrees Celsius, Tf = temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
- Use the statistics in the Sports section to write word problems for a partner to solve.