Sunday, August 21, 2011

Stat Class- Standards Part 2

After diving into the MN standards I broke them down into 68 little nuggets of understanding.  Small, manageable, bite-sized pieces. 


These standards become:

These are the first two standards.  As the standards progress (and honestly as I got lazy/tired/bored of actually doing work) I got less specific.    I still need to do some refining to actually get my concept list finalized, but I feel pretty confident that we can accomplish this in a year.

Moreover, while Minnesota seems to really not want math common core...the standards are VERY VERY similar.

For example: 
S-ID.4. Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal distribution and to estimate population percentages. Recognize that there are data sets for which such a procedure is not appropriate. Use calculators, spreadsheets, and tables to estimate areas under the normal curve.

Perfectly matches:  
9.4.1.4 Use the mean and standard deviation of a data set to fit it to a normal distribution (bell-shaped curve) and to estimate population percentages. Recognize that there are data sets for which such a procedure is not appropriate. Use calculators, spreadsheets and tables to estimate areas under the normal curve. 
On the whole, MN standards are pretty closely aligned with the common core.  Common Core included expected outcomes and occasionally went a bit more in depth into a topic, but overall, very similar.

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