Thursday, January 28, 2016

The accuracy of Punxsutawney Phil

groundhog February 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil will again, with great ceremony, come out of his burrow and look for his shadow. There’s nothing like a cute animal picture to make your students smile as they calculate the relative frequency of Phil’s upcoming prediction.

CCSS: 7.SP.5, 7.SP.6, 7.SP.7

         groundhog-day2016.pdf

For members we have an editable Word doc and solutions.

 groundhog-day2016.docx             groundhog-day2016-solutions.pdf


This week might also be a good opportunity to use these activities:

Throwing up – A parabolic motion activity about throwing snow to the side of a path.

Snow days – which is an activity observing and calculating the rate of snow fall in a 23 hour span.  Students predict the final total.

from Yummy Math http://www.yummymath.com/2016/the-accuracy-of-punxsutawney-phil/


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