Algebra 1 - Unit 9

Lincoln-Way Community High School
Mathematics Department – Algebra 1

Unit 9 - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Enduring Understanding: Reading newspapers and financial reports can be better understood by using various methods of data interpretation.
Essential Questions: How will statistics affect your life? How can statistics guide you in making better decisions? How can statistics help you to predict possible outcomes?
Target Goals: The student will be able to: display and interpret data on line, bar and circle graphs compute mean, median, mode and range compute probability and odds of a simple event	Assessment: Paper and pencil tests with multiple-choice and open-ended questions. Project where students will collect data and apply all statistical concepts of the unit. ie: Students will make a poster with one type of graph including mean, median, mode and range and a paragraph interpreting the results.
Activities: M & M activity as an in-class project. (Distribution of various colors in each bag of candy.) Here is the website for the percentage of each color: http://us.mms.com/us/about/products/milkchocolate/ Here is a website for another M&M color distribution project: http://lovschools.leaco.net/LHS/Department/Techlab/MandM.html Coin-flipping activity or rolling a die.
State Goals: 10.A.4a 10.A.4b 10.A.4c 10.C.4a

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