Catch a Falling Star

Let your students tap into their inner engineer and have a class paper airplane contest! This is a fun and engaging way to collect data for students to practice statistics. This could even be used as an assessment at the end of the unit. Includes teacher instructions and student worksheet. Student worksheet includes data collection and practice calculating mean, range, mode, median, quartiles, interquartile range, and mean absolute deviation. Students will also create a dot plot and a box plot