Count the Objects Task for Data Collection
When I ran across this count the objects task last fall, I thought it would make a great classroom activity for anyone needing to collect one variable data to analyze.
The task is from Stephen Barr’s Mathematical Brain Benders: 2nd Miscellany of Puzzles.
I see so much potential for using this activity in a statistics class. You could split students into two groups. One group is allowed to move their hands. The other group isn’t. How does this affect their accuracy?
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Or what if you differed the amount of time that students are given? How would that affect the data?
If I was teaching Algebra 1 again, I would probably use this data collection activity as a way to practice making box-and-whisker plots.
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