Is the Lego toy company racist? It would appear so, if the research conducted by two of my Grade 7 students has any merit.
For the culminating task in my recently completed Data Management unit, two students elected to survey 35 Lego sets from a variety of themes. Their results were shocking: Even if you removed the ubiquitous "yellow" skin tone data from the set, the peach faces on Lego people surveyed still outweighed the brown-toned faces by a scale of 10:1!!!
For the culminating task in my recently completed Data Management unit, two students elected to survey 35 Lego sets from a variety of themes. Their results were shocking: Even if you removed the ubiquitous "yellow" skin tone data from the set, the peach faces on Lego people surveyed still outweighed the brown-toned faces by a scale of 10:1!!!
This is exactly the sort of rich thinking I was hoping for from this assignment. Although not every student took up the "go a step further" style challenge, this group sure did.
I told them they should use their data to write a letter to the company! :)
I told them they should use their data to write a letter to the company! :)
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