When my family and I were at the Excalibur hotel, my little brother played a lot of circus games there. As learned in Unit 1, accuracy and precision play a big part in winning these types of games. In this game, there was a catapult type of machine, where you would hit the leer and have a doll fly into a cauldron pot a couple feet away. The distance the doll would travel depended on how much force was exerted onto the machine and which area of the lever it hit, whether it was in the middle, end, or top. Accurarcy is the closeness to the initial target (where he aimed) and precision is how close the groupings are to each other (where the doll actually landed and how often it did so). My brother had figured out the right area to hit the lever and how hard to hit in order to get the doll into the pot. One of the causes of error could be the way the doll was placed in the catapult, but with consistant tries to the same spot he was able to win!
So he was accurate and precise... how long did it take for him to get the doll in the pot?
ReplyDeletehow often was he inaccurate? or imprecise?
ReplyDeletehe tried about 3 times before actually getting it into the pot, because most of the time he hit it too hard and had it fly a lot farther than needed
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