Find the Error
What's wrong with this x-axis scale?
Unevenly spaced.
Something that the scientist changes.
What is the trend of this graph?
Does not start by the value you're counting by.
I want to see which blood type is most likely to get bit by a mosquito. The number of bug bites is the _____.
What is the dependent variable?
What is the trend of this graph?
There was an increase in earnings between Monday and Tuesday, and then a decrease between Tuesday adn Wednesday. Between Wednesday and Saturday there was an increase in earnings before a decrease between Saturday and Sunday.
Y-axis scale is poor and uneven.
Typically found on the Y-axis.
What is the dependent variable?
What is between 2PM and 5PM?
What are 2 errors on this graph?
1. scales are backwards
2. plotting is backwards
3. y-axis scale is poor
Typically found on the left side of a data table.
What is the independent variable?
I hate crowds. This is the best day of the week for me to get ice cream.
What is Monday?
The y-axis scale should be much smaller.
Why do we only change one independent variable at a time?
For more accurate results. By only changing one thing, we are able to clearly see what effect it had on our experiment.
True or False: On average, I make more money than I spend.
True!