6 Working in teams, students will determine which brand of popcorn is the best to use for a popcorn sale. The criteria will include finding the brand of popcorn which has the fewest unpopped kernels. Students will collect data, construct graphs, and make inferences based on data analysis. Computation Use percents.
Statistics Find an average.
Activity 2 Statistics Display data from collected data and interpret the display. Activity 3 Number Theory Order numbers. Activity 4 Statistics Analyze data to justify an answer. Introduce the popcorn study by listing various brands of popcorn, researching the history of popcorn, discussing why popcorn pops, etc. Divide the class into equal-size laboratory groups.