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MATH602: Modern Mathematics for Teachers II
Revised: November 2006
Course Description
Topics from probability and statistics to include permutations, combinations, and distribution. Prerequisite: 601 or permission of department head. Three semester hours.
Objectives
This course is intended for elementary and middle school teachers and will focus on
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Basic concepts of descriptive statistics, techniques of representing data, and distributions;
- Making predictions, elementary probability, sampling and modeling.
Text
Dealing with Data and Chance. NCTM (5-8 Addenda Series), 1992.
AND
Quantitative Literacy Series (Exploring Data, Exploring Probability, Simulation, Sampling). Dale Seymour Publications, 1986.
Grading Procedure
Grading procedures and factors influencing course grade are left to the discretion of individual instructors, subject to general university policy.
Attendance Policy
Attendance policy is left to the discretion of individual instructors, subject to general university policy.
Course Outline
Descriptive statistics
Data analysis and data representation using classical and contemporary approaches; descriptive statistics including topics concerning central tendency, dispersion, and relative positionDiscrete topics
Counting, permutations, and combinations;Probability
Experimental and theoretical probability including mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events, multi-stage experiments, odds, expected value and simple conditional probability;Simulation
Using simulation to represent given probability situations;Bivariate situations
Strategies to determine "best-fit" models.