Each student in the group will get a stop watch. The student will close their eyes and start the stop watch. After they think a minute has passed they will stop the stop watch and open their eyes. The students in the class will pull their data together and create a stem and leaf diagram, histogram, and a box plot. Lastly, the students will discuss the mode, median, mean, and the range of their data.
Students are to discuss about the range and if most of the class estimated under or over a minute.
How does the different central tendencies demonstrate the estimations of the class. Students will predict how many times they can snap their fingers in thirty seconds. The class data will be collected and listed in a chart on the board or overhead. The teacher will run a stop watch for thirty seconds as students snap their fingers. After thirty seconds the teacher will collect and list the class results in another chart on the board or overhead.