Course Description
This is a semester course that discusses the characteristics of groups of numbers and how to represent their traits. Further, this course explores the likelihood of future occurrences based on prior data through probability.
Core Curriculum Content Standards
PA Common Core: Mathematics (2013)
Measurement, Data and Probability
GRADE 6
- Demonstrate anunderstanding ofstatistical variability bydisplaying, analyzing,and summarizingdistributions.(2.4.6.B1)
GRADE 7
- Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models.(2.4.7.B3)
GRADE High School
- Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable.(2.4.HS.B1)
- Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables.(2.4.HS.B2)
- Analyze linear models to make interpretations based on the data.(2.4.HS.B3)
- Recognize and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments.(2.4.HS.B4)
- Make inferences and justify conclusions based on sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies.(2.4.HS.B5)
- Use the concepts of independence and conditional probability to interpret data.(2.4.HS.B6)
- Apply the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model.(2.4.HS.B7)
Units
Unit #1 - Measures of Central Tendency
Unit #2 - Organization and Displaying Distributions of Data
Unit #3 - Organizing and Displaying Data for Comparison
Unit #4 - Standard Deviation
Unit #5 - Introduction to Probability
Unit #6 - Probability Distribution and Discrete Random Variables
Course Resources
Teacher Created Material, Infinite Algebra 2
