Learning is looking a little different in the statistics classroom on Wednesday and Thursday as students work to build and play carnival games in the cafeteria.
“The carnival helps students learn the difference in theoretical versus experimental odds,” statistics teacher Steven Rotan said. “In theory, you know your odds should be this, but when we actually put it into use, they may change depending on how people play the game.”
On level stats and AQR participate in the carnival with students from other classes invited to play the games and contribute to the data collected.
“One thing I like about this class is that it’s not so test based,” senior Grace Morgan said. “We do more projects, and it makes it a lot more tangible and easy to relate to real life.”
Students are graded on the data they collect and the level of creativity used for their games.
“Our game is ‘Guess the Cup’. So, basically, it’s like a cup shuffle,” senior Tierany Scott said. “We put a ball under a cup, and we just shuffle the ball around, and we see who’s gonna guess the right thing. We’re collecting our data by taking down a name and seeing if it’s right or wrong, and then we’ll get a mean, a median, and a mode, and then collect our data and average it out that way.”
