“Mystery Dice: A Game of Inferences” by Joel Schwartz and Therese Block

Edited by Kristi Ryken

This lesson focuses on two main aspects of scientific research: plotting data with software to visualize and help understand relationships and hypothesizing the mechanism that generated trends in data to begin with. This is approached in the context of an author-created game Mystery Dice, which has both simple rules to play and complex behavior to reason out.

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Grade Level: 8
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Skills and Topics: Mathematics, Physical Science, Inference, Graph, Spreadsheet
Technical Needs: Computer, Google Sheets