MATH AND SCIENCE

Yes, that’s right. I know we’re in science. You still need to do math.
Estimation! (The art of guessing!)
Estimation How many marbles???

An approximation of a Everyone take a guess!

number based on Winner gets 2 tickets!!!!
reasonable
assumptions.
Accuracy
Accuracy All aimed for bulls eye: all in

How close a
measurement is to the
true or actual value.
Reproducibility
This is also reproducible. What
Reproducible
if the darts were in a corner?
How close a group of
measurements are to
each other.
What is this?? Accurate? Reproducible?

Neither!!!
Significant Figures!
My phone is 4.75 inches
Sig-Figs:
long!
This measurement How many sig-figs ???
includes all digits that
have been measured
exactly plus one digit 3!!!!!
whose value has been
estimated.
Precision, precision, precision.
Precision Which is more precise?

This tells you how

My phone is 4.75
exact your inches long
measurement is. OR
My phone is 4.7563
inches long

4.7563 inches long