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Taste the Rainbow

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Middle schoolers practice estimating and graphing by utilizing Skittles.  In this statistics lesson, students complete worksheets based on the likelihood of a certain color of skittle coming out of the bag.  Middle schoolers create a graph based on the percentage of each color within a bag of Skittles.

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data analysis, statistics

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color sorting, data analysis, skittles, statistics, math
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
2 hrs
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