Math Content Standard A: Content of Math

Key Element 6. Probability

A student who meets the content standard should collect, organize, analyze, interpret, represent, and formulate questions about data. Make reasonable and useful predictions about the certainty, uncertainty, or impossibility of an event.

Statistics and Probability for All

The field of statistics is the process of collecting, displaying, interpreting, and critiquing data. Statistics incorporates the concepts of probability to determine whether or not the results of a survey or experiment are the result of chance or are the result of a cause/effect relationship. Probability and statistics concepts fall within the domain of general mathematical and scientific literacy. These are skills required for effective life-long decision making in democratic society.

Big Ideas in Statistics and Probability

Possibly, probably, and certainly
Predicting and determining probabilities
Theoretical probability
Experimental probability
Simple and compound events
Independent and dependent events
Data collection, organization, and graphing
Central tendency, variance, and correlation
Analysis and inference