Posts tagged 9th-12th Mathematics
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Mathematically proficient students notice if calculations are repeated, and look both for general methods and for shortcuts.
Look for and make use of structure.
Mathematically proficient students look closely to discern a pattern or structure.
Attend to precision.
Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem.
Model with mathematics.
Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures.
Inappropriate Data Usage
CC.9-12.S.ID.9 – Distinguish between correlation and causation.
Scatter Plots
CC.9-12.S.ID.6a – Fit a function to the data; use functions fitted to data to solve problems in the context of the data.
Using Measures of Central Tendency
CC.9-12.S.ID.2 & CC.9-12.S.ID.3 – Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.