Mathematics

02/11/2009 13:07

• Solve problems involving percent increase, percent decrease, and simple interest rates
• Solve problems by selecting, constructing, interpreting, and calculating with displays of data, including box and whisker plots and scatterplots
• Make inferences by comparing the same summary statistic for two or more data sets
• Describe how summary statistics relate to the shape of the distribution
• Determine whether information is represented effectively and appropriately given a graph or a set of data by identifying sources of bias and compare and contrast the effectiveness of different representations of data
• Evaluate the design of an experiment
• Make and test conjectures based on information collected from explorations and experiments