STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY CONCEPTS

The student produces evidence that demonstrates understanding of statistics and probability concepts as follows (Follow the links to Interactivate lessons):

• The student collects data, organizes data, and displays data with tables, charts and graphs that are appropriate, i.e., consistent with the nature of the data.

  Statistics and Shopping
  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student analyzes data with respect to characteristics of frequency and distribution, including mode and range.

  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student analyzes appropriately central tendencies of data by considering mean and median.

  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student makes conclusions and recommendations based on data analysis.

  Statistics and Shopping
  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student critiques the conclusions and recommendations of others' statistics.

  Probability and Sports
  Statistics and Shopping
  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student considers the effects of missing or incorrect information.

• The student formulates hypotheses to answer a question and uses data to test hypotheses.

  Statistics and Shopping
  Mean, Median and Mode
  Stem-and-Leaf Plots
  Histograms and Bar Graphs
  Box Plots
  The Bell Curve
  

• The student represents and determines probability as a fraction of a set of equally likely outcomes, recognizes equally likely outcomes and constructs sample spaces (including those described by numerical permutations and combinations).

  Probability and Sports
  Ideas that Lead to Probability
  Introduction to the Concept of Probability
  Probability and Geometry
  From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
  

• The student makes predictions based on experimental or theoretical probabilities.

  Probability and Sports
  Ideas that Lead to Probability
  Introduction to the Concept of Probability
  Probability and Geometry
  Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
  Replacement and Probability
  From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
  Expected Value
  Unexpected Answers
  

• The student predicts the result of a series of trials once the probability for one trial is known.

  Probability and Geometry
  Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events
  Replacement and Probability
  From Probability to Combinatorics and Number Theory
  Unexpected Answers
  

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