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Now
that you have finished your experiment, it's time to write a report
about what you learned. When you write your report, be sure
to include information about all of the following.
- Describe
the experiment in detail, so that others get a clear picture of
what you did.
- What
did you do to come up with a guess of how many candies were in
your package?
- How
accurate were you in your guesses?
- What
did you learn about the difference between your single results
and the results that were based on the entire group?
- How
do you think the results would change if you looked at the results
of a much larger group?
Note
to the teacher: You might want to send students to
http://www.starw.org/wolinsky/candy.html
to enter their data. This will add their data to a larger
sample that represents all people who have done this activity and
entered their data on the page. You can print these
instructions for downloading and manipulating the large data
set that you can show to your class. While it's not for the faint
of heart, it's a great exercise. Try it! |
