Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.4A Grade 12 CPI 5

 

Standard: 4.4 - Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics

 

Strand: A - Data Analysis

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 -  The student will analyze data using technology, and use statistical terminology to describe conclusions

·        Measures of dispersion:  variance, standard deviation, outliers

·        Correlation coefficient

·        Normal distribution (e.g., approximately 95% of the sample lies between two standard deviations on either side of the mean)

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students are presented with data gathered by an archaeologist at several sites. The data identifies the number of flintstones found at each site and the number of charred bones. The archaeologist claimed that the data showed that the flintstones were used to light the fires that charred the bones. Students produce a scatterplot, find the correlation between the two sets of figures, and use their work to support or criticize the claim.

 

·        As an assessment activity using their journals, students respond to the claim that children with bigger feet spell better. They discuss whether they believe the claim is true, how statistics might have led to this claim, and whether it has any importance to a philosophy of language teaching.

 

·       The World Series of Mechanisms