Description
Numbers are quoted at your student all day long, and almost nobody checks them. Statistics is the course that teaches the checking.
This self-paced statistics course for high school uses the free OpenStax Introductory Statistics, 2e, so there is no textbook to buy. Students work through descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, the normal distribution, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, with weekly assignments and hands-on data projects drawn from the real world.
The emphasis falls on two things at once: getting the arithmetic right, and judging whether the data deserved trust in the first place, recognizing bias and reporting findings plainly.
Assignments are deliberately flexible. A student may submit photographs of written work, a spreadsheet or a short report. The course ends with a final project in which they collect or analyze a dataset of their own and apply several statistical methods to interpret the results.
Tamara Pool holds an M.A. in The Great Books from Memoria College and has advised True North families since 2020.
Class details
– Teacher: T. Pool
– Term: one semester; one semester of coursework
– Grades: high school
– Credit: 0.5 credit
– Prerequisite: Algebra I recommended
– Materials: OpenStax Introductory Statistics, 2e (free)
– Self-paced and online; students work on their own schedule
True North Academy is Cognia-accredited. Add Statistics to your student’s math plan and we will take care of the grading and the credit.
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