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Go Fish!

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Eighth graders use goldfish crackers to simulate a capture-recapture method of data collection. They fill in a chart and determine the averages. They find the estimated population of fish and the actual population of fish based on the sample.

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data analysis, proportional reasoning, proportions

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8th
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Math
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