Basketball - it's a tall man's sport - or is it?

The students will use NBA player data to determine if there is a correlation between the height of a basketball player and his free throw percentage. The students will use technology to create scatter plots, find the regression line and calculate the correlation coefficient.

Basketball is a tall man's sport in most regards. Shooting, rebounding, blocking shots - the taller player seems to have the advantage. But is that still true when shooting free throws?
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Subject(s): Mathematics
Grade Level(s): 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Graphing Calculators, Computer for Presenter, Computers for Students, Internet Connection, Interactive Whiteboard, LCD Projector, Microsoft Office, GeoGebra Free Software (Download the Free GeoGebra Software)
Instructional Time: 55 Minute(s)
Keywords: scatter plot, basketball, correlation, statistics, correlation coefficient, statistics, regression, scatter plots, data sets, data analysis, statistics, bivariate data, graphing, modeling, data representation
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan
Resource Collection: FCR-STEMLearn Algebra

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