How many times can each team member bounce and catch a tennis ball in two minutes?
A bounce is defined as dropping the ball from the student’s waist. One student keeps the time while the second student bounces and catches the ball, the third student counts the bounces, and the fourth student records the data in a table showing both the number of bounces during each ten-second interval and the cumulative number of bounces. Each trial consists of a two-minute experiment, with the number of bounces recorded after every ten seconds (or twenty seconds for fewer data points). The timekeeper calls out the time at ten-second intervals. When the time is called, the counter calls out the number of bounces that occurred during that ten-second interval. The recorder records this count and keeps track of the cumulative number of bounces. The same process is followed by each student, with the students rotating roles, so that each student can collect a set of data. All the students must bounce the ball on the same surface (e.g., tile, carpet, concrete) because differences in the su
