An Elementary Science Teacher Wants to Provide Students with Practice

question 44

Multiple Choice

An elementary science teacher wants to provide students with practice in the skill of inferring. What would be the most suitable activity?

• A) Provide students specific directions for making sugar crystals and then have them follow these directions to make the crystals.
• B) Provide students two balloons, one filled with air and one filled with helium, and ask them to tell which goes up and which sinks.
• C) Provide students with a collection of bird bones and ask them to describe their common characteristics.
• D) Provide students with an irregularly shaped rock and ask them to measure its volume.
• E) All of the above
• F) None of the above

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values calculated from a set of data so that it is very likely, to a specified probability, that the true parameter of the population is within this range.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a set of data points from their mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain degree of confidence.

Millilitres

A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter, commonly used in liquid measurement.