Update
07-18-2008
Content Type
Activity
Grade Level
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade, Undergraduate
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PDF
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In this activity, students learn how range, uncertainty, and the number of data points affect the correlation coefficient and chi squared. This sim could be used as a lab demonstration, and is useful for any course where students are asked to understand how well a curve describes a dataset. The associated simulation can be found here: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/curve-fitting

Authors: Trish Loeblein, Mike Dubson