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What's the best way to use Instagram?

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What’s the best way to use Instagram? When a user posts an image to Instagram, they often obsess over how many likes and comments it receives. However, it can be hard to know what strategies users can take to make their pictures more popular.

In this lesson, students use histograms, linear regressions, and r-squared values to debate the most effective strategies to gain Insta-fame...and the consequences of always having to smile for the camera.

REAL WORLD TAKEAWAYS

  • How one uses Instagram may affect how many interactions and followers they accumulate.
  • It may also affect their well-being.

MATH OBJECTIVES

  • Interpret the slope and intercept of a linear model in the context of the data
  • Compare R2 values
  • Distinguish between correlation and causation

Appropriate most times as students are developing conceptual understanding.
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