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What’s the best way to be successful on Instagram?

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What’s the best way to be successful on Instagram?

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Check it out! This lesson was just updated in September 2024, and we hope you love the new and improved version. If you've already prepped an earlier version, fear not, you can still find those here through Thursday December 5, 2024.

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2023-2024 Versions

In the fall of 2024, Citizen Math released updated versions of every lesson in our library, plus a few new ones! We know you may have already prepped an earlier version or planned a repeat of last year, so we're continuing to make these earlier versions available through Thursday December 5, 2024.

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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

  • Many users of social media apps like Instagram, TikTok, and others want their posts to be successful. A common way to measure the success of a post is by how many interactions (likes + comments) it receives from other users.
  • The number of follower an account has is positively correlated with how many interactions a post gets, but not much else is. Contrary to common thinking, how many likes a post gets (on Instagram) is not explained by the number the number of hashtags of users tagged.
  • Businesses use social media to maintain their actual brands. Individuals also use social media to build their personal brands.
  • Studies have found that social media can have a negative impact on well-being, especially for teenagers.

MATH OBJECTIVES

  • Interpret the slope and intercept of a line-of-best-fit through a set of real-world data
  • Interpret and compare R2 values
  • Distinguish between correlation and causation

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