Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Coin Toss Experiment - What to include


Aim – What was the purpose of the experiment? What was it trying to prove / disprove?
Hypothesis – An educated guess as to what will happen. Back up your guess with logical reasoning.
Materials – A list of what materials were used for the experiment.
Method – Dot points or numbered list of the steps taken to conduct the experiment. (Note – this does not include calculating the averages or graphing the results)
Results – Your data set and graph
SWDTTU? – Explain any assumptions that were made. Interpret your results. What do they tell you? Do the support of disprove your hypothesis?

11 comments:

  1. what does swdttu mean?

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  2. SWDTTU stands for So What Does This Tell Us?

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  3. Hey Mr Wright are you alright after today?

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  4. Mr wright can you hlp me i can only list 1 or 2 materials.
    my first on is the coins
    and the second one is the stop watch to time the minute of practising
    ?
    from c.h.

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  5. You're right, that's all we used.

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  6. what does data set mean

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  7. mr wright sorry to bother you but for the maths do we include our beginer score?
    c.h.

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  8. data set is the collection of results that you wrote in your exerise book (beginning test results and average, test one and average etc) And yes ch, you need to include your beginning test

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  9. thanks Mr Wright
    c.h.

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  10. Mr Wright,what does the method need to include?

    C.S

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  11. The method is a list of the steps that we did to conduct the experiment / test

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