Tinkerplots
- 1. Tinkerplots Grade 7’s looking at scatter plots that show changes over time.
- 3. How have Olympic records changed over time for the Mens’ 100m swimming, Mens’ 1500m swimming and Mens’ Pole Vault? What is the overall trend of the data?”
- 5. Men's 100 freestyle sw imming 1500m sw imming Men's pole vault Circle Icon Circle Icon Circle Icon
- 7. How did the records change over time?
- 9. What is the overall trend? Different styles of clothes? Different styles of swimsuits? What does data mean? What is the trend over the years?
- 11. Shape of the line? .
- 12. Why are dots (cases) close together?
- 16. 1500m
- 17. Pole Vault
- 18. How did the 100m records change over time? • It sloped and got faster. • Going down. • Better swimmers and technology and better trainers too. • People got fitter with the new technology. • The record changed because of technology advances through time such as fitness machines and clothes specialised for swimming. • They got faster and the swimming suits changed and people train more.
- 19. What is the overall trend? • It changed by the swimming suits got lighter and sexier! • Lycra swimming suits. • People got faster so the slope has gone down. • The data shows that some periods of time were more competitive than others. • It goes in a diagonal line but has a bit of a slope in it. • It changed each year.
- 20. How did the Pole Vault records change over time? • They use a pole to jump over the bar. • Their score has gotten higher but from 1980-2010 they’ve pretty much stayed the same. • The record probably advanced because of fitter healthier people and better poles. • Over the years people could jump higher. • It went low to high.
- 21. What is the overall trend of the Pole Vault data? • They changed the material of the pole. • It slopes upwards this time because their height is increasing. • The data show that people achieved new heights that were incredibly high. It shows that there was a new record most Olympic games and it also shows a lot or records were close. • People could jump higher so the graph’s slope has gone up. • The clothes were heavy but they got lighter so they could jump higher.