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If you are a Physics teacher or any teacher of secondary education, you might have come across students who ask you the following question: When are we ever going to use this knowledge in real life? This is quite a reasonable question to ask, although; it is usually asked with a hint of sarcasm and boredom. If you have enough experience with it, you probably have plenty of intelligent ways to answer such a question. Hopefully not in a way to make the students regret asking the question itself.

This PDF file is a class activity on Precision and Accuracy for high school Science classes. You can use this activity as a fun game for students. In this activity students will form small groups to shoot a target and compare the precision and accuracy of each group. The materials needed for this activity are very cheap and easy to find. At the end of the activity there are assessment questions on precision and accuracy.

Google Forms can be used as quizzes where the answers of the students are graded automatically enabling class statistics. This product includes the followings: Rounding numbers quiz (30 questions)Significant figures quiz (26 questions)Addition and subtraction with significant figures quiz (20 questions)Multiplication and division with significant figures quiz (16 questions)PDF copies of all these quizzes.Instructions to make a copy of these quizzes and add them to your drive so that you can own,