Analyzing the Ages of Academy Award Winners

Well, it turns out that I even as well as then bring posts inward my drafts folder from concluding year. I approximate I should produce something near that.

The Skill: Comparing Data Sets

The Topic: Ages of Academy Award Winners

The Introduction: Ask students what they await to happen. This was a hard chore for my students. It turns out they didn't actually bring a practiced sentiment of which actors/actresses bring e'er won an Academy Award for Best Performance. They were convinced that Betty White had won the Oscar for Best Performance...

The Data: Ages of Winners Divided past times Gender

The Data Display: Back-to-Back Stem-and-Leaf Plot

Note to self: Give students a graph newspaper grid to produce this on run past times of inward the future. Their information displays were a MESS.

The Conclusion: Analyze Similarities/Differences as well as Answer Reflection Questions

Of all the activities nosotros did inward our information analysis unit of measurement concluding year, this ane was belike ane of my to the lowest degree favorites. It's non that the activeness was bad. It merely didn't bring the enjoyment component that our other activities had of collecting our ain data. So, I'll belike last on the picket for a dissimilar activeness for creating back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots for this year.

It was actually interesting to heed to students percentage their theories regarding this data, though!

If you're interested inward the file for this activity, it is uploaded here.