Elementary Statistics
Prerequisite: Algebra 1B
Intended for 9th and 10th graders
Purpose/Course Description:
Statistics have become an important part of everyday life. They confront us in newspapers and magazines, on television and in general conversations. We encounter them when we discuss the cost of living, unemployment, medical breakthroughs, weather predictions, sports, politics and the state lottery. Although we are not always aware of it, each of us is an informal statistician. We are constantly gathering, organizing and analyzing information and using this data to make judgments and decisions that will affect our actions.
This course will improve the students understanding of the elementary topics included in statistics that are on the SAT and MME, and are a part of the Common Core Standards.
Intended for 9th and 10th graders
Purpose/Course Description:
Statistics have become an important part of everyday life. They confront us in newspapers and magazines, on television and in general conversations. We encounter them when we discuss the cost of living, unemployment, medical breakthroughs, weather predictions, sports, politics and the state lottery. Although we are not always aware of it, each of us is an informal statistician. We are constantly gathering, organizing and analyzing information and using this data to make judgments and decisions that will affect our actions.
This course will improve the students understanding of the elementary topics included in statistics that are on the SAT and MME, and are a part of the Common Core Standards.
Unit 1
- Probability
- Experimental Probability
- Theoretical Probability
- Independent & Dependent Events
- Odds - For and Against
- Set Theory - Venn Diagrams
- Compound Events
Unit 2
- Circle Graphs
- Double Bar Graphs
- Line Graphs
- Frequency Tables and Histograms
- Scatter Plots
- Line of Best Fit
Unit 3
- Samples & Surveys
- Stem & Leaf Plots
- Double Bar Graphs
- Measures of Central Tendency (mean, median, mode)
- Variability
- Box & Whisker Plots
- Normal Distribution