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Collecting Pens (Continued)
 


Activity Overview

In this activity, students learn how to instruct the calculator to collect and organize the results from several trials of a simulation designed to find out how many boxes of cereals a customer would have to buy to collect all six color pens. Students enter a prewritten program, analyze the results of the simulation from the summary statistics and statistical plots.

Before the Activity

  • Study the program code and its explanation
  • See the attached PDF file for detailed instructions for this activity
  • Print pages 77 - 86 from the attached PDF file for your class

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    		During the Activity

    		Distribute the pages to the class.

    Follow the Activity procedures:
  • Download the program into the calculator
  • Download a copy of the program into other calculators using the link cables
  • Run the program, and enter the number of trials [≤ 99]
  • Observe the random numbers generated by the program, and understand that the program stores the data as a list
  • Sort the data in ascending order, record the minimum and maximum values, and determine the range
  • Produce and examine a list of statistics summarizing the information
  • Set up a histogram
  • Graph a box-and-whisker plot
  • Analyze the distribution of the data

    		After the Activity

    		Students complete the Questions sheet.

    Review student results:
  • As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
  • Re-teach concepts as necessary

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    Subject Area:
    Math : Statistics : Probability and Simulation

    Author:
    Texas Instruments

    Level:
    5-8

    Activity Time:
    100 Minutes

    Device:
    TI-83, TI-83 Plus Family, TI-84 Plus Family

    Apps:
     

    Software:
     

    Accessories:
    Unit-to-Unit link cables

    Other:
    This is Activity 8 from the EXPLORATIONS Book:
    Graphing Calculator Activities for Enriching Middle School Mathematics



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