Activity Overview
In this TI-Nspire family activity, students use the ratings made by five judges in a poster competition with the goal of deciding the top three posters based on the ratings made by the judges.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Model a contextual situation mathematically and use the model to answer a question.
- Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities.
- Summarize and compare data sets using measures of center and variability
About the Lesson
The activity can be used with middle and introductory algebra students, and lends itself to a group project. The activity could be a precursor to a more extensive activity on investigating voting methods for students in geometry or second year algebra. The analysis can be connected to statistical summaries for center and variability and possibly to z-scores, as a way to normalize the ratings of the different judges.