Work individually. Touch your thumb to your pointer finger on the same hand. Touch your thumb to your middle finger on the same hand. Touch your thumb.
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• Work individually.• Touch your thumb to your pointer finger on the same hand.•Touch your thumb to your middle finger on the same hand.•Touch your thumb to your ring finger on the same hand.•Touch your thumb to your pinky finger on the same hand.
In this lesson, you will learn how to do a “bean passing” exercise. The exercise is designed to show the importance of opposable thumbs, but also designed to produce data
sets for manipulation.
You will then learn to incorporate the data sets into Microsoft Excel to produce Data Tables and graphs
• Now that we have some data, we can start using Excel to manage it.
• Begin by opening the Excel program.
• You will see the empty cells of a basic spreadsheet.
• Across the top you will see letters A,B,C,… these represent columns
• Down the left you will see numbers 1,2,3,… these represent rows
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• Find the cell corresponding to the “A” column and the “1” row
• Type in the finger combination used for the first set of passes (UR1-UR2)
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• In the cell corresponding to A-2, enter the finger combination used for the second set of passes (UR1-UR3)
• Enter the next group in A-3 and so on until all the groups are represented
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• You should now have something that looks like this.
A B
1 UR1-UR2
2 UR1-UR3
3 UR1-UR5
4 UR2-UR3
5 UR2-UR5
• Now find the cell corresponding to B-1 and enter the number of passes done using the UR1-UR2 finger combination.
• Next find the cell corresponding to B-2 and enter the number of passes for the UR1-UR3 finger combination.
• Fill in all the rest of your results.
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• You should now have something that looks like this.
A B
1 UR1-UR2 127
2 UR1-UR3 94
3 UR1-UR5 62
4 UR2-UR3 30
5 UR2-UR5 0
…however, this is just raw data. We want to compile it into a bar graph for ease of analysis.
A B
1 UR1-UR2 127
2 UR1-UR3 94
3 UR1-UR5 62
4 UR2-UR3 30
5 UR2-UR5 0
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• To show your data as a bar graph on Excel, simply click “INSERT” and then “CHART”
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• We, as teachers, usually think of our bar graphs as vertical columns. On Excel that would be the selection under “Chart type” on the left, called “Columns”
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• The selections to the right show you all the various Column Bar Graph displays to choose from. (the most common is the first one)
• If it is highlighted, click the “Next” button to select it and a small image of your bar graph will appear.
• Click “Next” again and your final bar graph will appear.
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• Click “Next” again and your can title your graph and label your X and Y axis.
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• Click “Next” again and your can title your graph and label your X and Y axis.
• Click “Finish” to get your completed graph.
• It might look something like this….
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Work Time, ctd.• There are important science rules to follow
when naming the X and Y axis or in titling the graph.
• To label an axis, you must give a descriptive name (which may include units if applicable)
• To create a title make a sentence that combines the X-Axis and Y-Axis. The title is actually a descriptive sentence.
• Look again at the Axis labels and title of our graph.
• If we look back at the graph produced we can then analyze and draw conclusions from the visual representation of the data in this simpler to understand format.
• Let’s look at our bar graph again. Can you see which trial had the highest number of passes?
• Can you see which trial had the least number of successful passes ?
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• It is easy to see that the UR1-UR2 finger combination has the highest number of passes.
• It is also now easy to see that the UR2-UR5 finger combination had the least
number of successful passes.
• Congratulations, you have now done a critical analysis of data and a graph!!