Activities

Students use a heart rate monitor to investigate the effect of exercise on the heart rate. Students will record the beats per minute readings as the Datamate program displays them on the TI-73 Explorer™.

Once the data is collected, students will calculate the average heart rate for their resting heart rate and the three exercises they completed. They will enter the activity types in a categorical lists and the average heart rate in another.

Using the data, students will setup and view a bar graph. They will determine if there was a general trend for each type of exercise and calculate the difference between the mean BPM and their resting heart rate. Students will make a conclusion about their pulse rate and how much it increased/decreased.