Brain teaser 1 and Scientific method notes
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BRAIN BUSTER!!!
How could you give someone
$63 using six bills, without
using one dollar bills?
$5
+
$8
=
$13
$13
+
$50
=
$63
1.
Problem:
The
question you
want to answer.
Always stated in
Sentence and
question form
2.
Hypothesis
An
answer for the
question/problem
you are trying to
answer.
A testable prediction
about how to answer
your
question/problem
3.
Experiment
The
method you will
use to test your
hypothesis.
The steps by which
you test whether your
hypothesis is correct
or not.
4.
Observation and
Data:
• (2 types)
• Quantitative
Involves: numbers
• Qualitative
Involves: your senses
Information
collected
using your 5 senses.
Information you
analyze to draw a
conclusion about
your hypothesis
5.
Conclusion
A
judgment about
your hypothesis
needs to:
• 1. Answer original
question
• 2. Support the answer
with collected data.
Why
is this scientific
something I should
care about?...I don’t
even like science
I’ll never use this…
Refer
the scientific
method back to how
we solved the brain
teaser.
Question
Hypothesis (guess)
Experiment (try it!)
Observation (did it
work?)
• Conclusion (did it
work…what should
you try now?)
•
•
•
•
An
old beggar collects cigarette ends
from ashtrays and sidewalks and uses the
tobacco to roll her own cigarettes. She
has this practice down to a fine art,
knowing it will take seven cigarette ends
to make one cigarette. Since she has
collected 49 ends, how many cigarettes
can she make from these and why?
Try using steps of the Scientific Method