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Science Sampler: How many lefties in our classroom?

Science Scope—September 2008

Probability sampling is an interdisciplinary math and science skill that often serves as the precursor to conducting scientific research. This article describes a lesson that uses probability sampling to allow middle school students to investigate some questions that were interesting to them, beginning with the prevalence (or lack thereof!) of left-handed students in their school. It helped to bring math and science together in a meaningful way and allowed them to work with a fun medium to examine the ways in which researchers collect, analyze, and interpret data, and deal with problems that might arise over the course of their investigations.
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