Probability and Statistics

Probability and statistics are powerful tools for describing the real world using methods that are accessible to students with a solid background in introductory algebra. This supplementary text to White Crane Education's Algebra 1 curriculum, starts with a discussion of the basic concepts of probability then moves into descriptive statistics including using charts to summarize and analyze data, modeling data with linear regression and drawing conclusions about a population using the normal distribution. A student designed research project involving data collection and analysis is outlined through the exercises at the end of several of the book's sections.