Jumping Jacks Activity
Objective (PASS 1.1b): Determine whether a relation is a function.
Materials: Graphing Paper, Pencil, Stopwatch (teacher does time)
Duties in Groups (3 or 4): Recorder, Counter (1 or 2), Jumper
Task: Do as many jumping jacks in 2 minutes (120 seconds)
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What are the variables in your activity?
Which variable is the independent variable? Dependent variable?
Does your table make up a relation? Explain.
Does your table make up a function? Explain.
Graph the data you collected.
Does your graph make up a linear relationship? Explain.
What would cause your graph to be non-linear? What would factor(s) would make the
graph change?
8) How many jumping jacks could do in 300 seconds? Explain how you got your answer.
9) How long would it take to do 400 jumping jacks? Explain how you got your answer.