Blog 3

For this Blog I read 'Lemonade for Sale' by 'Stuart J. Murphy.' This story had a fun illustration and story line to help children learn graphing.  There was a club that neighborhood kids were into, and they  needed enough money in order to fix their club house that needs some repairing.  They were a relatively large group of kids and had used cups, water, sugar, and lemons in order to accomplish their funds for their club house.

  During their lemonade sales, they were using a graphing bar day to day showing how many cups they have sold during the week, on the left side of the bar, they had numbers going up indicating how many cups sold, on the bottom was the week days.  The graphing had helped the kids know exactly how they were doing prior to the last day, to be able to compare how their sales were going daily.  This was a good thing because at the end of a day, they had realized thank you to the graph bar, that they have sold very little cups of lemonade compared to the other days that they have sold lemonade.

In real life, The same graphing that the kids in the book had used is very useful for every day life,  Just how the kids found out that they lost sales one day, thanks to the graphing that they had used, this would be beneficial for real life decision making and tracking.  You can use it for your savings account, or your investment portfolio to have a feel how you are doing compared to the prior day.  Personally I use this for My stock investment portfolio, it helps be realize how I have been doing.  Underneath here is a example graph that can be used in many different ways.