Weekly Virtual Class Meeting: Tuesdays from 10:00 AM– 10:30 AM

Time Commitment: 5 – 8 well-focused hours per week

Attendance: Simply logging in to your courses does not count as attending. Attendance is based on submitting assignments and is taken on a weekly basis. Submit all of your work by the weekly due date to be marked with good attendance.

Prerequisites: None—this course is appropriate for students at all levels who need to meet the Data Analysis & Probability standards or for those who need a one-semester math elective.

Credit: .25 credit per quarter

Terms: This course is two quarters in length

In this one-semester course, you will develop your problem-solving skills and use them to make predictions about our world. You will use statistics to learn about what to expect in life–from sports to restaurants to the cost of living. We will dig into what it means to be “normal.”  We will find the chance of something happening. Most important, we will explore how people can use numbers to influence who we believe and what we think.

Course materials: Excel, Word, and online articles.

Standards Covered: This course meets all standards and benchmarks in the Data Analysis & Probability strand of the Minnesota 2007 Math Standards for Grades 9-11.

Honors Opportunity: Yes