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Scatterbrain

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COMBINED RATING

3.7 Stars

TEACHERS (16)

4.2

STUDENTS (2408)

3.3

LENGTH

19 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

Description

Do you want to train to become a wizard? Your queen needs you! Doodle your way through the fundamentals of scatter graphs!

Vocabulary Words

scatter plot graph

predict

plot

data

positive correlation

negative correlation

outlier

variable

y-axis

x-axis

axis

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Construct And Interpret Scatter Plots. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Graph paired measurements that may be associated with a scatter plot.

Look for a positive or negative trend in the cloud of points (Do the values trend up the vertical scale as they proceed to the right(positive) or vice versa).

Describe groups of points as clusters.

Describe points that are far off he trending points as outliers.

Interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What are some ways we use a graph to represent data? How do we plot points on a graph? What are some important features that graphs need to have so they are easily read and understood? What is a scatter plot? What are scatter plots used for? How would you plot one coordinate, such as (2, 5)?

After the Game

Once a graph was created in the game, what clues did you look for when stating the relationship between the two variables? How do you identify an outlier on a graph? What does a graph look like if there is a positive correlation between the two variables? What does a graph look like if there is a negative correlation between the two variables?

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Game Details

Difficulty

Content Integration

Lexile Level

705