wisdom of the crowd

The Wisdom of the Crowd is an excellent activity for students to work with data- mean, median, and mode. Below are photos of my students working with a project we co-created and carried out to test the wisdom of our classes. It encouraged students think about the differences between mean, median, and mode.

      

      

Below is a brief video giving the history of Wisom of the Crowd:

This video is what the students used as a framework for our version of Wisdom of the Crowd:

Before knowing the results, the students decided to use the mean to determine the wisdom of the crowd. The collective guess of the 80 participants (75 students and 5 teachers) was 539. There were 503 pieces of candy in the jar. How close were we?

References:

NOVA | Wisdom of the Crowds from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/wisdom-crowds.html Accessed October 12, 2013

Wisdom of the Crowd from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd Accessed October 12, 2013