Comparing Chirps and Temperature (FL)
Task
Explore data to decide if measures of center, such as mean and median, are helpful to answer a question about whether or not temperature matters when counting the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds. Lesson Objectives Essential understanding or skill: Describe the context of a dataset and recognize how measures of center and range can help decide if temperature matters when counting how fast crickets chirp. Investigate how generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Students will: Describe the context of the data. Find and describe measures of center and ranges.
Welcome to this Tuva activity! A scientist in Colorado wanted to know whether crickets chirp faster when it’s warmer outside. For several nights in August, she recorded: the air temperature how many chirps in 15 seconds she heard the date and time and sometimes both °F and °C You will explore her real data and decide whether measures of center, like mean and median, help answer her question. Click Next to begin!
Topics and standards: MA.6.DP.1.2, MA.6.DP.1.6