Objectives for Statistics Rocks Project

Learning Objectives:

- Students will be able to define key math concepts such as mean, median, mode and range by showing that they can find these measures of central tendency when given a real-world set of data.

- Students will learn how to utilize excel to list data and then utilize excel to create scatter plots.

- Students will recognize patterns in scatter plots and will be able to identify if trends of data are positive, negative or have no correlation.

Enabling and Support Objectives:

- Students will be able to put numbers in list form and rank in order from lowest to highest.

- Students will be familiar with vocabulary terms like, calories, fast-food, fat and units of measure like grams.

- Students will practice their oral speaking skills by presenting a powerpoint or poster presentation to their peers and teachers.