Thought Well Math

I created this project as a way for my 6th graders to practice their statistical skills. They loved it! They get to pretend to be epidemiologists studying a virus outbreak that is turning people into zombies. It's a fantastic way for students to see how statistics is used in the "real world" - they were also very interested to learn about the field of epidemiology. The Project: Students are given data about infected people who are quarantined in an airport. They are also given two maps of the U

I created this project as a fun way for my 8th grade students to apply their knowledge of scatter plots in a meaningful way. They had a lot of fun! Students pretend to be biostatisticians investigating why asthma rates in a city are skyrocketing. Students get to uncover the environmental cause of the increased rates of asthma and investigate how different factors are associated with asthma attacks. Students get lots of practice: - creating scatter plots using a table of data - selecting an appr