Newton's Laws
Friction
Mean
Median
Mode
100

Who discovered the three laws of motion?

What is Sir Isaac Newton?

100

True or False: Friction always makes motion harder and is never useful.

What is False — friction can be helpful (ex: brakes, walking, writing, etc.)?

100

What is the mean of 3, 5, and 7?

What is 5?

100

What is the median of 1, 3, and 5?

What is 3?

100

What does the word mode mean in math?

What is the number that appears most often?

200

Newton’s First Law says an object will stay at rest or keep moving unless acted on by what?

What is an outside (unbalanced) force?

200

If a box is hard to push across a rough floor, what could you do to reduce the friction?

What is use wheels, rollers, or lubrication like oil or grease?

200

To find the mean, you must add all the numbers together and then do what?

What is divide by the number of values?

200

What do you do before finding the median of a set of numbers?

What is put the numbers in order?

200

What is the mode of 2, 2, 3, 4, 5?

What is 2?

300

You slide a book across a table and it stops after a few seconds. Which force caused it to stop?

What is friction?

300

What type of friction occurs when an object is sliding over a surface?

What is sliding friction?

300

Mean can go by another name what is that name?

Average

300

What is the median of 2, 4, 6, 8?

What is 5?

300

What is the mode of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9?

What is there is no mode?

400

You push a shopping cart, and it speeds up. Which of Newton’s Laws does this show?

What is the Second Law (force causes acceleration)?

400

What type of friction occurs when an object rolls across a surface?

What is rolling friction?

400

The numbers are 5, 10, 15, and 20. What is their mean?

What is 12.5?

400

Find the median of 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12.

What is 8.5?

400

The numbers are 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5. What is the mode?

What is no mode (or multiple modes: 3, 4, and 5)?

500

Newton’s Third Law says for every action, there is what?

What is an equal and opposite reaction?

500

What kind of friction keeps an object from moving even when a small force is applied?

What is static friction?

500

A basketball player scored 12, 18, 25, 15, and 20 points in five games what is the mean.

What is 18?

500

If the median of 5 numbers is 10, and four of them are 6, 8, 12, and 14, what is the fifth number?

What is 10?

500

If a data set has two modes, what do we call it?

What is bimodal?