What does facial hair have to do with quarterback ratings? Using a set of data that provides QBR with and without facial hair, football enthusiasts determine if performance is affected. It also has learners question if the relationship between quarterback rating and facial hair is that of correlation or caussation.

Concepts

the super bowl, data, correlation

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Instruct learners to create a graph of the data
• Have class members work in partners to find the answers before coming back to a whole-class discussion of the topic

Classroom Considerations

• Best used during football season or around the Super Bowl
• Assumes leaners can interpret given sets of data to determine correlation and causation

Pros

• Ties football and math together which is helpful for learner engagement
• Uses real-world data

Cons

• Does not come with an answer key

Common Core

6.SP.A.1 6.SP.A.3 6.SP.B.4 7.SP.A.1 7.SP.A.2 7.SP.B.3 7.SP.B.4 HSS-ID.A.2 HSS-ID.C.9