PC 102 Professional Skills
Gathering Agenda for Week 08
Gathering Purpose
• Discuss the BYU-Pathway Worldwide devotional
• In groups, work together on the semester project
Preparation
•Review the Math gathering activity in the math lesson
•For face-to-face Gatherings, arrive early to setup the room, prepare any visual aids, and greet students
as they arrive.
• For virtual Gatherings, start the meeting early, share your screen with a message welcoming them to the
gathering and letting them know you’ll start soon.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks that students meet in small groups, use Breakout Rooms.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks you to display things on “the board,” you use the whiteboard.
Min. Activities Teaching Tips
Welcome and Devotional
10 Welcome Welcome, announcements, and housekeeping
Hymn or Please sing one or two verses of a hymn. If you meet with
Thought, Prayer a virtual gathering, the lead student or another student
should be invited to share a brief spiritual thought. A
volunteer will then give an opening prayer.
BYU-Pathway Students were asked to watch the BYU-Pathway Look up the questions in
Worldwide Worldwide devotional this week, as contained in the advance so you are
Devotional course. They should have done this prior to the gathering. ready.
As a class discuss the devotional using the discussion
questions provided in the course.
Math Activity
10 Math Practice Spend 7-10 minutes reviewing this week’s math gathering You might want to
activity attached below this week’s agenda. explain that GDP is a
measure of a country’s
economy and by
extension indicates the
standard of living for its
residents.
Work on Semester Project: Management Framework, Part 1 and Sales Data Graph
40 Work Together Use the master list compiled in the Week 6 Gathering to Before you facilitate this
divide the class into the correct groups. For virtual gathering, review the
gatherings, each group should be in its own breakout material mentioned
room. As a group, work on this week’s assignments here.
described at W08 Prepare: Semester Project.
Success on the Sales Data Graph depends on the use of
Microsoft Excel. Encourage at least one participant per
team to share his or her screen showing the assignment in
Excel. A computer running Excel is preferable. If nobody in
a team has a computer for this gathering, they should try
to see and work on the assignment with the device that
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they currently have.
Group Communication Reminder: If you don’t finish
during the gathering, be sure to communicate with your
team during the week to help each other on the semester
project assignments.
Testimony and Come back together again. The lead student bears a 30-90
Prayer second testimony and ends with a prayer by invitation.
Math Gathering Activity
Graphs and charts are an important way to visualize data. They help us see trends and make
observations that are hard to recognize when just looking at the numbers themselves.
The following information is the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita across 12 European
countries. The amounts have been modified to 1990 international dollars.
Year (AD) GDP per capita (1990 International Dollars)
1 599
1000 425
1500 798
1600 907
1700 1032
1820 1243
1870 2087
1913 3688
1950 5018
1973 12157
1989 16751
2008 22246
(Source: Federico, G. (2008). Contours of the world economy, 1–2030 AD: Essays in
macroeconomic history By Angus Maddison. The Economic History Review, 61(3), 769-769.
doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00436_33.x)
Consider answering the following questions without using a graph or chart.
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1. Between what years is the GDP relatively unchanging?
2. Between what years do we start to see a slight increase in the per capita GDP?
3. Around what year do we start to see a significant change in the per capita GDP?
4. What does this change look like compared to previous years?
Now refer to the graph below. How does graphing the data better help you answer the previous
questions?
Possible discussion answers:
The GDP remains relatively unchanging between years 1 and 1500AD. In the year 1500 there is a
slight increase in GDP. This slight increase continues until the year 1820. The year 1820 marks the
beginning of an amazing period of growth where the data increases in almost a vertical pattern.
Students may discuss what would cause a significant change in GDP starting in 1820. This marks
the beginning of the industrial revolution. It also is the year of Joseph Smith’s first vision. L. Tom
Perry makes some connections between the restoration of the gospel and the growth of
technology in his 1977 talk entitled, “He Hath Given a Law Unto All Things.”
