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Applications: Analyzing Data Relating to the Challenger Disaster.

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Tappin, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1994

Presents an activity to analyze the data from the Challenger explosion to help students understand the critical role of statistics in decision making and the importance of considering all available data. (MKR)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Exponents (Mathematics)

Generating and Analyzing Data.

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Stevens, Jill – Mathematics Teacher, 1993

Presents activities in which students develop and analyze scatterplots on graphing calculators to model corn growth, decay, a box of maximum volume, and weather prediction. Provides reproducible worksheets. (MDH)

Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Functions (Mathematics)