Game: MIX AND MATCH
Aim: Drag question blocks to answer boxes
Method:
Drag the question block over the right answer box to tidy up the play room. Points are added and taken away automatically.
Click the answer boxes to hear the answer for each box. You must answer 5 questions correctly to complete the game
8th grade / Statistics / Two variables / Scatter graphs / Using lines of best fit
Scatter graphs use points to represent values that correlate the relationship between two variables. The scatter graph will indicate the degree to which the two variables are linked or related. If the variables are linked, you will be able to draw a line of best fit. The more strongly two variables are correlated, the more closely the points will follow the line of best fit.
One of the benefits of being able to draw a line of best fit is that it enables you to predict values for one of the variables that you don't have a data point for. To do so, you must first locate the independent variable on the x-axis. Draw an imaginary vertical line from that value up to the line of best fit. To get the y-axis value, draw an imaginary horizontal line from the line of best fit to the y-axis to read off the value.
It should be stressed that these predicted values will always be approximations, just as the line of best fit is usually an approximation relative to the actual data which tends to contain more variability in it than can be accommodated by a line of best fit.
In this topic you are asked to use the provided line of best fit to predict values for the dependent variable (on the y-axis) given a value for the independent variable (on the x-axis).
With our Mix and match math game you will be practicing the topic "Using lines of best fit" from 8th grade / Statistics / Two variables / Two variables. The math in this game consists of 16 questions that ask you to in each instance use the given line of best fit to predict approximate values.
In this game we are in a room with lots of toys - and the room needs clearing up - you need to put the play blocks back in the right boxes to tidy the room and win the game...but which is the right box for each block? Well, you can work that out by comparing the question on the block with the math answer on each of the boxes - you should drag the question block into the box whose math answer matches the picture question.
You can listen to the spoken math answer by clicking on the individual boxes. There are 5 blocks to clear up - but if you put them in the wrong boxes, there will be more... Anyway, tidy is good and practicing math is better so start now and see how you get on...
This game reinforces the math you learned or revised in the lesson by asking you to match each question to the correct answer. If you are older you may not like the childish reference to toys, but don't worry - there are other games to play, and who knows - you might like a trip down memory lane?
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Rock fall * Four in a row * Sow grow * Choose or lose * Mix and match
There are 5 blocks that need putting away to tidy the play room. Drag (they are heavy...) the blocks to the correct boxes.
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