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In what year was Dickinson College founded狄金森是哪一年成立的学院 Introductory Activity: Questions on Backs Authors: Allan Rossman and Mary Mortlock Summary: This activity provides a fun, casual introduction to statistics as the science of data and to the usefulness of graphical displaying for conveying numerical information. It also serves as an “ice-breaker” activity and an opportunity for people to mingle and get to know each other. After completing this activity, students should: , Have experienced a fun introductory activity that gives them a chance to interact with each other , Begin to understand the fundamental idea that statistics is about data and that context matters , Begin to understand the fundamental principle of variability: data vary , Appreciate the usefulness of graphs for conveying information about data Each participant has a question taped to his/her back. He/she records on an index card the numerical answers to the question as told to him/her by other participants. Then the participant creates a graph (and kind of graph, preferably a creative one) of the responses. The participant also tries to guess what the question was based on the responses and records this guess on his/her graph. When all graphs have been created, participants take turns describing their graphs and explaining their guesses, before they turn around and discover the question that was actually on their back. At the beginning of this activity, participants should be cautioned to only give a number as their answer. Do not use units (dollars, miles, etc.) and try not to give any reaction that would “give the question away.” Participants should be told that for many questions they may need to provide a guess of the answer and that “your” in a question refers to them and not to the person whose back contains the question. The primary goals of this activity are: , To provide a fun introductory activity and give students a chance to interact with each other , To introduce the fundamental idea that statistics is about data and that context matters , To introduce the fundamental principle: data vary , To demonstrate the usefulness of graphs for conveying information about data The questions should be chosen as likely to interest the participants involves. A mixture of questions likely to produce little variation and questions likely to generate lots of variation is desirable. It is also useful to use some questions with a single correct answer and others with opinions or tastes as answers. 1 Questions could include: , How many years has it been since your school was founded? , How many dwarfs does Snow White meet? , How many pets do you have? , For how many years have you been teaching? , How many miles is your home from downtown Minneapolis? , How many years has it been since John F. Kennedy was shot? , How many points did Michael Jordan score on average per basketball game in his career? , What do you consider the ideal temperature in degrees Fahrenheit? , How many people live in your household? , How many miles is the earth from the sun? , What is the population of Minnesota? , What is the U.S. minimum wage in dollars? , Pick a “random” number between 1 and 10. , How many miles are on your car’s odometer? , How many siblings do you have? , What is the most money (in dollars) you ever paid for watching a movie? , What is the most money (in dollars) you ever paid for a haircut? , How many years old is President Bush? , How many counties are in Minnesota? , What is the last digit of your telephone number? , What is the first digit of your telephone number (without the area code)? , How many hours of sleep did you get last night? , How many students did you teach last year? , What is the salary (in dollars) of a brand-new teacher hired by your school? , What is the median price (in dollars) of a house in Hennepin county? , How many days are in the month that you were born in? , What is the last digit of your zip code? , How many pairs of shoes do you own? , How many pairs of shoes did you bring with you this week? , What is the median age of the people in this room? , How many letters are there in the name of your home state? , On a scale of 1 – 10 (1 = very nervous, 10 = not nervous at all), how nervous are you about this course? , How many children do you have? , How many different planes did you take to get here? , How many Harry Potter books have you read? , How many major league baseball teams are there in the U.S.? , How many hours (not necessarily an integer) did it take you to travel here? 2