ICE BREAKERS

MATERIALS

• Chewing gum
• Timer

PREDICTION

Research question
What's the relationship between the pieces of gum and the time it takes to pop?

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
number of pieces of gum
DEPENDENT
The time it takes to pop

PROCEDURE

• Gathered materials
• Chewed 5 pieces of gum one by one
• Timed how long it took to pop all the gum
• Copied down the data
• Put it all together

Data
Time it takes to pop
-1 piece - 1.16 sec
- 2pieces - 1.99 sec
- 3 pieces - 3.65 sec
- 4 pieces - 4.60 sec
- 5 pieces - 6.26 sec

GRAPH

Equation
Y=1.286-X+ -0.316

Conclusion
For every one piece of gum, the time increases by 1.286 seconds