Hula Hoop Relay Activeness To Practise Scatterplots

Five or then years agone earlier I always started teaching, I purchased a hula hoop at a yard sale.  I paid a whopping 10 cents for it, in addition to I simply knew it would brand the perfect improver to a math lesson!  

My initial reckon was to role it inwards a ratios in addition to proportions lesson, but that never happened.  Instead, it spent most of its life hanging out betwixt a wall in addition to a filing cabinet.

This year, though, it made its classroom debut inwards a hula hoop relay race for 1 of our lessons on scatter plots.  Hula hoop relays are frequently used equally team-building activities.  The top dog reckon is that all of the participants bring together hands to cast a large circle.  A hula hoop must hold out passed around the circle which each histrion stepping inwards in addition to out of the hula hoop to overstep it to the side past times side person.  Hands must remain interlocked at all times.  Still confused?  I institute this description in addition to instance of the game.

I prepared a note-taking canvass for my students to gum inwards their interactive notebooks.

First, I had them brand a hypothesis regarding the length of fourth dimension it would receive got to create a hula hoop relay alongside our entire town.

Their answers ranged anywhere from a span of hours to a span of months!  There was much disagreement! 

  After determining that our independent variable was number of people in addition to the subject variable was time, nosotros started collecting information alongside unlike numbers of people inwards the circle.

My kids had a TON of fun alongside this!  I larn inwards a policy to never include photographs that demonstrate students' faces on my spider web log or twitter, but I receive got to tell it was difficult to enshroud their faces inwards these photos.  There was simply an aspect of pure joy on each face.  They were grinning from ear-to-ear inwards math class.  You can't trounce that!

Here are some activity pictures.  This was a actually difficult activity to photograph because at that spot was constant motion!

After collecting what the cast decided to hold out a sufficient number of information points, nosotros made a scatter plot of our data.  We used this scatter plot to detect a employment of best stand upwards for past times hand.  Then, nosotros used the equation for this employment of best stand upwards for to determine how long it would receive got us to create the hula hoop relay alongside the entire town.

There was some fence close the size of Drumright.  One pupil did a fleck of googling in addition to institute that the population inwards 2014 was 2883.  One pupil insisted that this information was out of date.  The population of Drumright was straight off 5,000.  Another pupil insisted that this information could non hold out correct at all.  She reckon that the town alone had a population of around 600.  I institute these conversations to hold out rattling interesting.  Eventually, the cast did create upwards one's hear to role the information value from 2014.

I was surprised past times how unlike the results were from my ii classes that did this activity.  The kickoff cast ended upwards alongside an approximate of 2.5 hours for the entire town to consummate the relay.  The minute cast actually struggled alongside the hula hoop relay.  I mean value this was likely due to the fact that at that spot was a BIG departure inwards students' heights inwards the circle which made it much trickier for them to consummate the relay.  They ended upwards alongside an approximate of over vii hours for the entire town to consummate the relay.

I LOVED the tidings that resulted from bespeak my students to charge per unit of measurement the trustworthiness of their model in addition to estimate.  Students were eager to indicate out potential problems.  What close the elderly?  They wouldn't hold out able to curvature over plenty to larn through the hula hoop.  What close people inwards cycle chairs?  Then, nosotros started talking close how it would function alongside kids.  Kids upwards to a sure enough historic catamenia would hold out able to simply stride through the hula hoop without whatsoever number at all.

I definitely hold off frontwards to using this activity in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than inwards the future!  Files for this activity are uploaded here.

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