How Long is 30 Seconds?

Activity Sheet
1. What are some questions we should ask to determine how accurate a person is at predicting
the passage of time?

2. Record your prediction for when 30 seconds has passed: ___________ seconds
You may use this website as a second counting tool:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/classroom-timers/

3. Record the results for the class in the following table:

Name

Prediction
(seconds)

Boy or
Girl?

Name

Prediction
(seconds)

4. Sort the predictions from smallest to largest.

5. Using the sorted data find the mean, median and range:

6. Using the sorted data, find the values needed to construct a box plot of the data:

7. Construct the box plot on the following website:

https://www.meta-chart.com/box-whisker
1

Boy or
Girl?

8. Describe the accuracy of the class predictions of when 30 seconds has passed:

9. Separate the class data into two groups of your choice, one for group A and the other for
groupB (some examples of groupings of your choice include: Left vs. Right handed people,
Girls vs. Boys, classmates who prefer math to reading instruction vs. reading to math subjects,
etc.)
Data for A:
Name

Data for B:
Name

Prediction
(seconds)

Prediction
(seconds)

10. Sort the group data from smallest to largest:

Group A of your choice:

Group B of your choice:

11. Using the sorted data, find the mean, median and range for the A groups data and for the
B groups data:

12. Using the sorted data, find the values needed to construct box plots for the A and B groups
data:

13. Construct box plots for the A groups and B groups data on the following website:

https://www.meta-chart.com/box-whisker

14. Compare the B groups and A groups distributions:

15. Insert the data from page 1 into the Histogram data plot on this website:
https://www.meta-chart.com/histogram

16. Insert the data from page 1 into the Scatterplot on this website:
https://www.meta-chart.com/scatter

17. Now that you are familiar with the different data plots take the interactive data plot Power
Point quiz just below this document on the Student Activities Page on Ms. Maguires Classroom
Weebly website located at http://maguireclassroom.weebly.com