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Unit Overview Learning Summary & Objectives Teaching Tips & Extension Activities	Learning Summary Exploring the notion of fingerprint uniqueness, students delve deeper into related mathematical concepts in the activity, Making and Identifying Fingerprints. In that activity, they also learn how to make permanent images of their own fingerprints. They observe the distribution of fingerprint types within their class, and compare this to data from a large sample of the general population. Learning Objectives The students will: Make their own set of permanent fingerprints with ink; use the standard classification system to organize the fingerprint sets of the entire class; determine if the class sample can be generalized to the population as a whole; explore the idea of non-uniform distribution of fingerprint types, and use probability concepts to calculate the number of people with their same type distribution; learn about fingerprint details (minutiae), and use these for identification purposes; deposit a latent fingerprint and develop it using a standard police technique, and identify other students using fingerprint evidence.

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Learning Summary & Objectives

Learning Summary
Exploring the notion of fingerprint uniqueness, students delve deeper into related mathematical concepts in the activity, Making and Identifying Fingerprints. In that activity, they also learn how to make permanent images of their own fingerprints. They observe the distribution of fingerprint types within their class, and compare this to data from a large sample of the general population.

Learning Objectives
The students will:

Make their own set of permanent fingerprints with ink;
use the standard classification system to organize the fingerprint sets of the entire class;
determine if the class sample can be generalized to the population as a whole;
explore the idea of non-uniform distribution of fingerprint types, and use probability concepts to calculate the number of people with their same type distribution;
learn about fingerprint details (minutiae), and use these for identification purposes;
deposit a latent fingerprint and develop it using a standard police technique, and
identify other students using fingerprint evidence.