First grade paired with fifth once again today, this time attempting the O.R.E.O Project. Through the O.R.E.O. Project (Our Really Exciting Online Project), classrooms around the world were invited to have students stack Oreo cookies, average individual results, and determine a final class result. To complete the project, students first estimated the number of cookies they could stack. Then, they stacked one cookie of top of the next, one at a time. Students were not allowed to adjust their cookies or stabilize their towers. When the tower tumbled, the total number was recorded. Each student was allowed two attempts. After recording individual data, students determined the highest tower score for each. With the assistance of fifth grade, first graders put their data in order, added the total, identified the number of participants, and then worked to find the mean, median, mode, range, and outliers.
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