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Describe the
activity as a scenario.
Are you left or right handed? When you intertwine your
fingers, which thumb is on the top? If you are left
handed, is your left thumb on the top? and vise versa.
Is the ''thumb on the top'' independent or dependent on
whether you are ''Left handed or right handed''?
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2. |
Decide to
have the class to
- participate in the data
collection (Go To Step 3)
or
- Use the data collected by
other classes (Go To Step 4)
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Engage
students in the data measurement and data collection.
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Ask the question "Are you left
handed or right handed" and have them raise
their hands.
- Ask them to clasp their hands
together
and intertwine their fingers to observe which
thumb is on the top.
- Direct students to "add data"
page for this activity to enter their data.
- Go to Data Entry
- Select Activity
Left_Right_Hand
- Click on "ADD DATA"
- You need to provide
the students the Activity
Pass Code
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4. |
Direct
students to the Data Download
page for this activity.
- On the Activity
'Left_Right_Hand' page, click on "Data
Download".
- There are several selection
criteria available. Please tell students which
criterion to be used. You may choose all cases
or subsets of data.
- Please ask students to save
the data before opening it. A convenient
location for saving the data is on the
Desktop-The default data is named "mydata.dat".
The data values are separated by space (Space
delimited)
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5. |
Direct
students to analyze the data.
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You may use the software at your local computer lab.
- You may use the online
software "statcrunch" at
http://www.statcrunch.com/. First time
users are required to login and create an ID and
password. Please ask the students to write down
their ID and password for future use.
- Direct students to input the
data and ask them to follow your instructions.
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Assessment:
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