Muesli Bars!

This is just a quick post. My class had a big discussion about muesli bars some time ago, after a scary amount of muesli bar wrappers kept ruining our chances of winning the trophy in our Zero Waste school. To solve the problem they decided we should make our own, (which we have not yet done) and then we got to talking about health and nutrition and cost. This resulted in a collection of empty muesli bar boxes arriving at school on a daily basis, with which nutritional information was compared, and so I just had to make the most of it all and do statistics (even though statistics was not planned for this term!) At the end of it all, we now know

• the difference between histograms and bar graphs
• how to use "pages" on the computer, to produce a professional looking graph
• pie graphs weren't the right graph to display our findings
• what and x and y axis are
• graphs need titles and labels
• pictographs look nice but aren't so easy to read when you have lots of data
• that you need to be accurate
• Pam's Fruit and Nut bars were the best value for money, and the healthiest!

  

  Yes, Griffin's 100's & 1000's Muesli Bars was voted "Most Attractive Packaging" by Room 7!