In the board game, Monopoly, does a property’s distance from GO correlate to its rent when you land on it?
Using Brian’s spread sheet (list of properties, distance from GO, rent and rent with properties), students create scatter plots. They graph points, draw lines of best fit, find average (X ,Y) values, judge outliers, and make predictions about new properties.
As the teacher, you can choose to assign this activity to be done by hand or to be completed with the tools and skills of manipulating Excel spreadsheets. (Question 9 on the activity uses property names that are related to our room and school in Newton. You can easily change the document to relate to your room and school.)
The activity: monopoly2021.pdf
For member we have an editable Word docx of the activity, an Excel sheet for students, an Excel sheet for teachers, and solutions for the activity.
monopoly2021.docx MonopolyData2021-student's.xlsx
MonopolyData2021-teacher's.xlsx monopoly2021-solutions.pdf
CCSS: 5.G., 6.SP.3, 6.SP.5, 8.F.4, 8.SP, S-ID
More great games to work with!
Monopoly Junior - Students look at the game board in play and try to decide who is winning and how they can tell. Who has the most expensive properties? the most hotels? the most money?
Lots of puzzle pieces - Brian's puzzle closet has lots of puzzles. He never throws or gives them away. Make some guesses about how many pieces are in the closet. Now add the number of pieces and look for techniques to make the adding easier.
Largest Lego Set ever - Students make a scatter plot of Lego sets to try to figure out how much this Roman Colosseum set will cost.
Ravensburger huge puzzle - Ravensburger is famous for making gorgeous puzzles. This one, when finished, is 22 feet long and 6 feet wide. How long would it take you to put all of those 40,320 pieces together?
Where should I drop my puck - (3-act activity) Students study our penguin peg board and decide which slot has the greatest potential to score big points? They also find the number of paths from each top slot.
Games with dice - Students calculate the probability of different sums when rolling dice. They look at how the theoretical outcomes compare with the experimental tallies of their dice throws and consider how the sample size affects the closeness of these two probabilities.
The game GO in the news - In 2016, Lee Se-dol, one of the World's best GO players attempted to play against Google's artificial intelligence GO player, "AlphaGo". In this activity students learn about the ancient East Asian game of GO and try to figure out the number of games possible and who is most likely to win the tournament ... man or machine.