Graduate Credit: MTH 3609

PDPs/CEUs: MTH 5909

 

Participants: Math Teachers, grades 5–12

Dates/Times: Saturdays: March 29; April 5, 12; May 3, 10, 17; 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Off Campus; St. Marks Preparatory School in Southborough, MA

Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $475; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $780

 

This course will develop the beginning practices and principles of probability theory, descriptive statistics, and beginning inferential statistics. The span of these subjects is vast, historically rich, and philosophically perturbing. Our goal is to identify the key concepts and principles behind these topics and to demystify the approaches that seem counter to our intuition. The approach in the course is to build up knowledge as guided by both conceptual and practical exploration.

 

Topics covered will include naïve probability theory, models of probability theory, philosophical consequences, sampling, descriptive techniques (plot diagrams and numeric descriptives), correlation and regression, distributions, inferential methods and reliability.

 

Instructor: James Tanton teaches at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA and is Director of the St. Mark’s Institute in Mathematics.