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Total classes: 12
Prerequisite: Algebra 1
Suggested grade level: 9-12
Suggested credit: 1 full semester Math or Statistics
Instructor: Jean Hoeft, MA
Instructor Biography: Jean Hoeft has been a math and algebra teacher for 23 years. She has a BA from the University of Michigan and a MA from Marygrove University. Jean has taught the confirmation class at her Catholic parish for 28 years. She loves gardening, sudoku puzzles, raising chickens, reading, knitting, and everything Catholic.
Course description: We will explore all areas of probability and statistics starting with what is data, discrete v. continuous, analog and digital data. We will then move on to data displays, surveying, measures of central value, measures of spread (including standard deviation, quartiles, and interquartile rage), comparing univariate and bivariate data, correlation, probability, combinations and permutations and random variables. This course is designed as an introduction to data analysis to ready a student for college level statistics.
Course materials: Statistics for Dummies ISBN # 9-780470-911082
Homework: Students should expect to spend 5 hours on homework per week
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