Would you rely on a fortune cookie for advice? The instructional activity first requires future statisticians to categorize 100 fortune cookie fortunes into four types: prophecy, advice, wisdom, and misc. The instructional activity goes on to have learners use relative, joint, and marginal frequencies to compare their data to a published data set.

Concepts

categorical data, two-way tables, frequency

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have the class and other teachers collect fortune cookie fortunes to produce the required number of fortunes

Classroom Considerations

• Learners need prior experience with two-way tables, such as calculating relative frequencies
• If using an extension activity, pupils will benefit from having previous experience with hypothesis testing

Pros

• Teacher resource has a list of fortune cookie fortunes to print if cookies are not available
• Lesson includes optional extension activity for advanced statistics students

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSS-ID.B.5 HSS-IC.A.1 MP1 MP2 MP4 MP5 MP6