Become a bean counter. Pupils use a fun activity to design and execute an experiment to determine whether they can grab more beans with their dominant hand or non-dominant hand. They use the class data to create scatter plots and then analyze the distributions to make conclusions.

Concepts

statistics, hypotheses, experimental design, data analysis

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Collate data from different classes to get a larger sample set
  

Classroom Considerations

• Activity requires dried beans, a coin, a measuring cup, and a stopwatch
• Learners should be able to create box plots, either by hand or using technology
  

Pros

• Provides an activity sheet with a blank data table
• Lists discussion questions and prompts to use with the class
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

7.SP.B.4 MP1 MP2 MP3 MP4 MP5