New Millennium Falcon Lego Set Part One: Check this story out! What do you wonder?

Make a quick guess. How much do you think this Lego set costs? Other than simply being given the price, what information would be helpful in estimating the price of this set?

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Part Two: Display or pass this out after students have had time to think about the part one (the first page).

To estimate the price of the 7,541 piece Millennium Falcon Lego set it might be helpful to know the cost of other Lego sets. Here are some:

What is the important information to look for in thee Lego sets? How can it help you determine the cost of the 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon set? What are some different ways to represent the data? Use the cost of these Lego sets to try to predict the cost of the price of the 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon Lego set. Be sure to show your reasoning and justify your answer.

Lego Follow Up Questions

1. This Lego Family House kit has 756 blocks in it. How much do you think that this kit would cost?

2. This Lonely Mountain Hobbit kit costs $129.99. About how many pieces do you think are in this kit?

3. Can you create a rule for finding the price for any size Lego kit?

4. In this activity we took a small random sample of Lego kits and their costs. A random sample is when we take data from a small part of a population to answer questions about that population. In this case there are literally hundreds of Lego kits for sale and we took info on five kits. If your answers for questions 3 and 4 didn't come out to be exactly the way that these kits are priced make a suggestion about why that might have happened. How might we improve our mathematical model? How might you as a student or researcher determine a more precise estimate as to the price of a Lego block or kit?

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