Statistics’ Version of Amazing Race

It was a bright, sunny Wednesday morning. Right after our Ecology class lecture, everyone except us (the reporters) immediately proceeded to our Math 1 class which is basically conducted in the second floor of the CSM building. Everyone was busy doing their own thing while we are panicking on the other room on how we’re gonna conduct our game.  We aren’t gonna supposed to do the game on that day since we are still incomplete. Yet, on the last minute before cancelling our group presentation, my other groupmate suddenly appeared. We are left with no choice but to continue the game.

Just like the other groups, we also decided to do an ‘amazing race’ game. It consists of four stations. But it got a twist, since each group will have to select two hostages from their members to be held captive and dispersed in the stations. The members left will be the one running around stations to complete each task that will be given to them. Another twist? In each station, the players will be given options if they want to play or solve.

We have prepared four stations and I was assigned to be in Station 1. The play part is a little bit tedious for the players would have to answer some fill in the blanks questions by building words using the jumbled letters. Meanwhile, on the solve part, they are given two questions regarding probability.

In Station 2, Measures of Central Tendencies were the stars. In the play part, the players would have to blow out the flour out of a paper plate to be able to see the riddle that they’ll have to answer. Sadly, no one dared to try this. Hahaha. Anyway, the solve part is all about median and mean which is pretty easy. 

Now in station 3, Summation Notation was the celebrity. For the play part, the players will have to pick eight songs from the bowl and among it, they’ll have to sing five songs. This has been is fun! For the solve part, you know already, they’ll have to solve one summation notation problem.

For the last station, it’s all about permutation and combination. The solve part is about it of course. On the other hand, for the play part, it is a little bit challenging for it is a game of chance. They’ll have to roll the dice until they reach the points of 20. If there has been an excess, it will be deducted to their score.

Though our next class will be our major exam in biochemistry, we were able to pull our game off. More than the theories and principles of statistics, I learned to how should one work with a group. It was a fun learning experience.