Lesson Plan Title:
Using Kinect Sports to Observe Mean, Median, Mode, and Rates
Google products used:
Using a GoogleDoc that is created by the teacher as a worksheet to fill out while playing the games.
Grade level: 7-9
Subject:
Math
Overview:
Students will be learning to create and fill out tables and charts. Using the data that they collected they will find specific rates, means, medians, and modes of the data.
Materials:
Xbox 360, Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect Sports, and GoogleDocs.
Instructions:
Students are to play Kinect Sports Bowling and record the speed that they threw the ball each time and how many pins they knocked down. The charts for recording this data can be given to the student or the students can be required to create their own. The students will then take the data they collected and calculate the average speed they threw the ball for their first throw and the average number of pins they knocked over. Then they will do the same calculations for their second throw. Once they have done this they are to find the mean, median, and mode of their first throw and the mean, median, and mode for their second throw. Once all of the data is collected students are to create some type of chart to visualize their data, either a bar graph or a scatter plot. Then, students will be asked to explain what their data means: did they throw the ball faster on their first throw or their second throw, did they knock down more pins for their first throw or their second throw, and how many pins did they knock down on average when it was their turn. The last part of the lesson is to provide the student with a hypothetical scenario and provide a table of a players turn. Have the students find the same information they did for their own data and then have them compare their scores to the scores of the hypothetical player.
Evaluation:
The students will be evaluated on their ability to either create tables and charts to organize data or on their ability to analyze data or even a mixture of both. Students should be able to determine the rate, mean, median, and mode.
Using Kinect Sports to Observe Mean, Median, Mode, and Rates
Google products used:
Using a GoogleDoc that is created by the teacher as a worksheet to fill out while playing the games.
Grade level: 7-9
Subject:
Math
Overview:
Students will be learning to create and fill out tables and charts. Using the data that they collected they will find specific rates, means, medians, and modes of the data.
Materials:
Xbox 360, Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect Sports, and GoogleDocs.
Instructions:
Students are to play Kinect Sports Bowling and record the speed that they threw the ball each time and how many pins they knocked down. The charts for recording this data can be given to the student or the students can be required to create their own. The students will then take the data they collected and calculate the average speed they threw the ball for their first throw and the average number of pins they knocked over. Then they will do the same calculations for their second throw. Once they have done this they are to find the mean, median, and mode of their first throw and the mean, median, and mode for their second throw. Once all of the data is collected students are to create some type of chart to visualize their data, either a bar graph or a scatter plot. Then, students will be asked to explain what their data means: did they throw the ball faster on their first throw or their second throw, did they knock down more pins for their first throw or their second throw, and how many pins did they knock down on average when it was their turn. The last part of the lesson is to provide the student with a hypothetical scenario and provide a table of a players turn. Have the students find the same information they did for their own data and then have them compare their scores to the scores of the hypothetical player.
Evaluation:
The students will be evaluated on their ability to either create tables and charts to organize data or on their ability to analyze data or even a mixture of both. Students should be able to determine the rate, mean, median, and mode.
Standards
Standard 5: Data Analysis, Probability, and Statistics
Teachers should either supply the students with a worksheet to fill out or
have them create their own tables and charts to record data. If the students are to create their own charts and tables then the teacher can determine if the students know how to collect, organize, and display data in a relevant logical way. After students have filled out these tables the teacher can ask a couple of data analysis questions such as finding the mean, median, and mode for their group. If the teacher wants to focus on one Standard more then the other then that can be done by leaving out Standard 2 activities.
Standard 2: Concepts and Principles of Measurement
After students have filled out the tables that were explained above they are to then
figure out the rate that they were knocking down pins. They are to determine the average speed that they individually threw the ball and the average amount of pins they knocked down for their first and second throw. This way, students are learning to find rates and then, if desired, teachers can decide to ask how these rates are related to ratios.
Another activity for students to do is at the end of the worksheet create a hypothetical scenario for the game and have the students determine the rate for the player and then ask some analysis questions.
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