Scatter Plots: Creating equations and predictions from data
I call this activity, "Sick in Saint Louis."
This is an activity that takes students through the steps of plotting scatter plots on an already created graph with labeled axes that is included in this download.
The steps that the students are walked through are, labeling axes, plotting points, drawing a line of best fit, finding the slope of the line, finding the y intercept from the graph, creating an equation for the line, and then