Cookie Towers

Grade 9s are working on data collection and representation. Today we gathered some single variable data by making cookie towers. The rules are: hold one cookie at a time and place it on the tower. Cookies are stacked one on top of the other. We want to create the tallest tower possible.

There were various strategies attempted. Our tallest tower was 16 cookies.

After each group had 12 attempts we calculated the mean, median, mode, and range. Then we learned how to represent data in a box and whisker plot.

It was a fun way to end the week.