As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read MoreApplying Statistics to TGS Habits
Inspired by a visit from WWF International president Yolanda Kakabadse, math teacher Ambika Dani developed a statistics project for her students – to replicate the powerful videos in Sra. Kakabadse’s presentation. In these videos, students learned how many liters of water are necessary to create a typical latte in the morning. Yuan Yuan, Russell, and Hudson took this idea and applied it to the school’s operations, putting our laundry under the proverbial microscope. They developed mathematical calculations to conclude TGS’ water consumption within a year and proposed solutions for the issue investigated.
How does this put your own water consumption into perspective?
Featured image by Pema T.