Make sense of data trends by digging into the happenings and history behind the numbers . Students interpret graphs to suggest why certain Googlesearches (and likely purchases) spike around Halloween and other times.
Using Wisconsin Fast Plants, we can see in the impacts of genetic inheritance through artificial selection in a short period of time.
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Use data science to analyze the data from FiveThirtyEight.com and draw your own conclusions about who is the most valuable player
Interpret authentic lab data on material characteristics and make recommendations for future research on superconductors
Examining freezing points of solutions by exploring data on how to create the ideal ice cream!
Wisdom of the crowd has been studied many times and has been shown to be well supported. People have noted that the estimates of individuals tend to vary around the true value of the quantity, but that average guess tends to be very close to the true mean when the crowd is sufficiently large. This has some important implications for group decision making. Do we come to better conclusions when we collect a diversity of opinions?
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Investigate how friction affects motion through stacked graphs and this shuffleboard scenario.
With the data from many countries combined we can ask questions about the general relationship between health care spending and the important health care outcome of child mortality rate.
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Use stacked graphs to investigate distance, velocity, and acceleration, comparing across two tosses.
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Do female crickets respond to a newly evolved purring song as a
mating signal? Do they prefer the typical song or the purring song?
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Use stacked graphs to investigate distance, velocity, and acceleration of a single throw
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Are firefly populations in Southwest Michigan in decline?
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Is there evidence for sexual dimorphism in canine length in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques?
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Explore how the variables of a pendulum affect its swing with this classic physics dataset. Use your understanding of pendulum swings to solve the problem in this scenario.
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Explore how the variables of a pendulum affect its swing with this classic physics dataset. Use your understanding of pendulum swings to solve the problem in this scenario.
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Do the two main groups of zooplankton (crustaceans and gelatinous animals) increase or decrease in response to changes in their phytoplankton food during El Niño events?
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Explore how the variables of a pendulum affect its swing with this classic physics dataset. Use your understanding of pendulum swings to solve the problem in this scenario.
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