A Thousand Cranes and Statistics

Year: 2005 Authors: Cheryl Whitelaw

Core claim

Timing crane-folding in class provides a concrete bridge from origami and cultural history to basic statistics, including estimation of the time needed to make 1000 cranes.

Topics

origami crane, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, Sadako and Hiroshima, mathematics in literature

Domains

statistics, geometry, symmetry, measurement, data visualization, origami, paper craft, visual art education

Methods

student timing, sample estimation, stem-and-leaf plot, box plot, histogram

Media

paper, spreadsheet, calculator, origami instructions

Source status

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