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It Creeps. It Crawls. Watch Out For The Blob!

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How do you find the area of an irregular shape? Class members calculate the area of an irregular shape by finding the area of a random sampling of the shape. Individuals then utilize a confidence interval to improve accuracy and use a calculator to generate a random sample of the image represented on a grid.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
data collection, data analysis, intervals, 3-d figures, random sampling, sampling, mean, histograms, box plot, five-number summaries, standard deviation
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Additional Tags
math
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Instructional Ideas
  • Use as a review of the basic statistical calculations
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires graphing calculators for statistics calculations
  • Learners should be able to find mean, median, standard deviation, five-number summaries, confidence intervals and populations mean; graph data using histograms and box plots
Pros
  • Provides context to a situation to increase motivation and relevance
  • Gives directions for using TI technology to make calculations
Cons
  • None