Probability and Statistics
High School Level Matrix
SASinSchool Correlations to WV CSOs
Janet Benincosa, Harrison County Technology Integration Specialist
WV CSO		InterActivity	Classroom Activity	Project	Web Inquiry	Web Lesson
M.O.PS.5.1			Probability Distribution of Throwing Two Dice	Analyzing and Presenting a Month's Collection of Data
M.O.PS.5.2			Is There a Best Way to Represent Data?		Why is the five-number summary important in the analysis of box-and-whisker plots?	Line Graphs with Real World Data
						Data Representations
M.O.PS.5.3			N x N Non-taking Rooks	Decisions, Decisions		Musical Dice Game
						Principles of Counting
M.O.PS.5.4			Probability Distribution of Throwing Two Dice	Animal Crackers	What is a probability distribution and when is it appropriate to use it to make predictions?	Probability Distributions
M.O.PS.5.6			Mean and Median: Are They Stable?	Using Your Own Data	What are the pros and cons of the three measures of central tendency?	Central Tendencies from Web Data
						Measures of Center
M.O.PS.5.7			Variability of World Leaders	Choosing the "Best" Statistic	How can two data sets have the same mean but different standard deviations?	Changing Data: Effects on Variability
						Measures of Variability
M.O.PS.5.9			Statistics in the News: What to Believe?	Random Samples Using Surveys	How are sampling techniques during collection of data important to the analysis and interpretation of the results?	Data Collection Methods
M.O.PS.5.10					How are sampling techniques during collection of data important to the analysis and interpretation of the results?	Measures of Variability
M.O.PS.5.12			Sentences, Words, and Reading Level	Data Gathering with Independent and Dependent Variables	Of what use are polynomials outside the math classroom?	Scatter Diagrams & Correlation
				Data Gathering with Independent and Dependent Variables	Why should the measure of a linear relationship between two variables be analyzed beyond the correlation coefficient?	Matching Correlation and Plot
M.O.PS.5.15			Traffic Jam	Discovering the Period of a Pendulum		Scatter Diagrams & Correlation
			When Should Vegetables Be Planted in the Garden?	Your Town's Average Temperature and a Sine Curve		Probability Distributions