M&M Scatter Plots
Last calendar week inwards Algebra 1, nosotros used M&M's to exercise scatter plots.
Goals for the lesson:
Using the Creative Pen on the Smart Board (set on smiley faces--it was the closest matter I could detect to M&M's), I created a sample scatter plot. Several students took turns coming upward to the Smart Board in addition to drawing a business of best fit. Building upon the students' give-and-take close how nosotros could depict lines going all dissimilar ways, I introduced the thought of no correlation.
Then, I modeled positive correlation on the Smart Board using the Creative Pen again. After a educatee came upward in addition to drew a business of best fit, nosotros discussed that the business of best stand upward for would convey a positive slope. (Slope is 1 of the most-tested topics on the acre testing inwards April. Thus, nosotros are taking whatever in addition to every chance to review slope!)
Students in addition to then worked alongside their M&M's to build scatter plots alongside positive in addition to negative correlations. To banking corporation check their agreement at the terminate of the lesson, each educatee chose 1 of the iii possible types of correlation in addition to rearranged their M&M's to reverberate that correlation. Then, every bit a class, nosotros looked at the scatter plots of several students to come across if nosotros could figure out what correlation they had created.
After having each educatee write what they had learned close positive, negative, in addition to no correlation every bit an leave of absence ticket, the students survive got to swallow their M&M's.
Goals for the lesson:
- Be able to define what a scatter plot is
- Be able to detect a business of best fit
- Be able to recognize positive correlation, negative correlation, in addition to no correlation
- Review positive in addition to negative gradient
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| No Correlation |
Using the Creative Pen on the Smart Board (set on smiley faces--it was the closest matter I could detect to M&M's), I created a sample scatter plot. Several students took turns coming upward to the Smart Board in addition to drawing a business of best fit. Building upon the students' give-and-take close how nosotros could depict lines going all dissimilar ways, I introduced the thought of no correlation.
Then, I modeled positive correlation on the Smart Board using the Creative Pen again. After a educatee came upward in addition to drew a business of best fit, nosotros discussed that the business of best stand upward for would convey a positive slope. (Slope is 1 of the most-tested topics on the acre testing inwards April. Thus, nosotros are taking whatever in addition to every chance to review slope!)
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| Positive Correlation |
Students in addition to then worked alongside their M&M's to build scatter plots alongside positive in addition to negative correlations. To banking corporation check their agreement at the terminate of the lesson, each educatee chose 1 of the iii possible types of correlation in addition to rearranged their M&M's to reverberate that correlation. Then, every bit a class, nosotros looked at the scatter plots of several students to come across if nosotros could figure out what correlation they had created.
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| Negative Correlation |
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