Statistics and Probability for Secondary Mathematics Teaching

Catalog description

Statistics and Probability for Secondary Mathematics Teaching explores important conceptual underpinnings, common misconceptions and students ’ ways of thinking, appropriate use of technology, and instructional practices to support and assess the learning of statistics and probability. Secondary teachers should have a deep understanding of summarizing and representing data, study design and sampling, probability, testing claims and drawing conclusions, and the historical development of content and perspectives from diverse cultures. Calculus I is a prerequisite for this course.