Data is a dish best served with an element of chance

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Mathematics & Statistics

Document outlining 2024 Mathematics plan.

Description

This course is for academically inclined Mathematicians intending to take Level 2 Mathematics and/or use Mathmatics in their career or other areas of study.

A scientific or graphics calculator, a quad book and pen are essential for this course.

CHANCE and DATA
Covers the study of the following -

PROBABILITY
Probability is the branch of mathematics that deals with predicting how likely events are to happen. We will study experimental and theoretical probability.

STATISTICS after the completion of the Probability topic.
You will learn how to interpret and evaluate information presented in statistical investigations, reports and graphs.
The assessment is an external exam, however the in class teaching may be followed by a derived grade exam, dependent on when the decsision is made by senior management as to whether or not we'll have a senior exam week.

If time allows we may be able to start the next topic which will be geometric reasoning. We'll begin with trigonometry.