So basically, we had to write a data analysis toolbox before we could start collecting our data. The questions that we had to answer were: Who are the individuals described by the data? What are the variables? In what units is each variable recorded? Why were the data gathered? When, where, how, and by whom were the data gathered? In addition to answering these questions, I had to write what graphs I will be using to display my results, what numerical summaries will be used and how I will be interpreting my results. All of the students in my class had to submit a data analysis toolbox and get it approved by our teacher before we could start collecting data. For starters, all of us thought that our toolbox was the best and nothing could be better, but when we got them back, we were all sadly mistaken. Our teacher did not even give us a grade for it because that is how bad they were. We were given a grade on work ethic. What our teacher intended us to do was to make this our reference for the rest of the project. With this toolbox, we would not need any other notes for the project because this would contain all of the information. I, along with other students, did not know this beforehand so all of the data analysis toolboxes that were submitted were very general and did not contain much detail. Once I knew that was what she wanted us to, I got to writing. I added a table with the names of all the schools that I will be contacting for my survey and I also added in that table the number where they could be reached along with what side of the river the school was on: East Bank or West Bank. Also, I detailed every aspect for the explanations of my graphs and how I will be interpreting them. While I was writing this, believe it or not, I was getting a deeper understanding of what I was actually looking for. In my first draft of the data analysis toolbox, I did not have any interpretation of the graphs in the context of my experiment. With the revised version, I wrote exactly what I was looking for and also other things that I would be looking for in those graphs. I really hope this is what my teacher was looking for. 
Check this link out to a blog that a parent wrote about the hours of homework students spend each night. And basically, he does not want students to have so much homework each night. I FULLY agree with this!!!!!!!! In his blog entry, he states that doctors base their treatment of their patient based on the patient's condition, and not based on their knowledge of science and medicine. Of course having a science and medicine background allows their judgment to be better, it is not as effective as the gut feeling a person may have. Christopher, the author of this blog entry, also gives a schedule of an average teenager. He states that 12 hours are spent to maintain a good health. This is half of our day. Then, about nine hours is spent on structured activities, such as, time spent at school, time spent commuting, and then the time spent on extracurricular activities. Now, the total is twenty-one hours. This only leaves three hours for the person themself. And you can’t forget that the human race is not perfect and there can be some distractions, which can extend this time. The student still needs to be relaxed in those three hours, have time for maintaining their hygiene and some other personal things. If teachers were to assign three hours of homework each night, the student would not have time to do anything else and would be grounded in work. This is not healthy for the child and teachers should keep in consideration the schedule of students outside of schools and assign an adequate amount of homework.
