Stacking Cups Analysis and Let's Party!

We used the Stacking Cups data to help look at our cups in a different way. We saw the cups as made of two parts: the "lip" and the remainder of the cup. Using this breakdown, we could see that the height of the stack of cups was a function of the number of cups in the stack multiplied by the "lip" distance, and added to the distance of the remainder of one cup.

After this, we looked at another set of discrete data--eating licorice, one bite at a time. Students measured the length of a piece of licorice, and then recorded the length of the rope after each successive bite.

Tonight's Homework: Complete the "Let's Party" worksheet.