This course is designed for, but is not limited to, students who plan on going into non-mathematical majors in college and are taking their final mathematics course at GBS. Students will use statistics and modeling to make predictions / decisions from data. Applications are drawn from epidemiology, business, bioethics, scheduling, voting, sociology, and current events. Students will use spreadsheets to analyze data and generate graphs. Evaluation of student performance will be based primarily on homework, quizzes, class participation, presentations, and projects.

Prerequisite:

• Algebra 2 363
  Algebra 2 Honors 373 OR
  Algebra 2 Studies 363
• Precalculus is helpful but not required.