Summer Olympics Statistics

Lesson Overview

Students will investigate relationships between variables in Olympic medal data by formulating comparative and associative questions. They will collect and analyze data to answer these questions, using statistical methods and creating visualizations to draw conclusions about potential factors influencing athletic performance.

Duration

1-2 hours

Lesson Type

Traditional Lesson

Essential Question

How can the scientific method be used to investigate relationships between different variables in real-world data, such as analyzing Olympic medal counts to understand potential factors influencing athletic performance?

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9, 10, 11, 12

Math

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Standards

Understand that sampling variability is associated with summary statistics and uses the margin of error to form an interval (confidence interval) to estimate the characteristic.
- SM.DPSR.2. Formulate investigative statistical questions that can be answered using data
  - SM.DPSR.2.2 Formulate comparative and associative investigative statistical questions for surveys and observational studies to compare two or more groups or to investigate the association of two or more variables

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