The Descriptive Statistics course introduces many essential topics of statistics. The students learn how to produce data through surveys, experiments, and observational studies. They then analyze the data through graphical and numerical summaries. The students next learn to model data, using basic probability and sampling distributions. And, with time permitting, the students discover how to draw conclusions from data using confidence intervals and significance tests.

The students learn when and how to use technology to aid in solving statistical problems. Furthermore, they produce convincing oral and written statistical arguments, using appropriate terminology. Most importantly, they become critical consumers of published statistical results by heightening their awareness of ways in which statistics can be improperly used to mislead, confuse, and distort the truth.

Assessments will include group and individual projects, daily homework assignments, quizzes, and tests. Resources used throughout the course include textbooks, graphing calculators, Fathom, and addtional websites, including statistical applets and Gallup.

Please refer to the description of the Descriptive Statistics course. This accelerated version will cover the same material, in addition to many more topics. These more advanced topics will include the following:

• a more indepth discussion of linear regression
• transformations, including square root and logarithmic
• confidence intervals and inference tests for proportions and means
• the chi-square test
• inference for regression

This course will move at an extremely fast pace, in preparation for the AP Statistics exam in the spring.

In this first part of the two-year Integrated Algebra 2/Geometry course, emphasis is placed on discovery and developing intuition for algebraic and geometric properties. Many new topics are introduced this year, with a focus on finding patterns and making conjectures through inductive reasoning, rather than through formal proof. Algebra is employed throughout the course to solve geometric problems, work with sequences, and investigate exponential and power functions. Heavy emphasis is placed on the connection between algebra and geometry through the study of transformation of functions. 

6th Grade is a time when all of the basic math skills will be solidified, strengthened and deepened. In tandem with this basic skills development will be an emphasis on creative problem-solving strategies and generalizing patterns to push the growth of each child's abstract thinking and logical reasoning ability. The beginning of algebraic thinking will be woven throughout the curriculum. Saxon Math is the textbook that we use in 6th-8th grade as the backbone of our math curriculum. It is designed with a spiraling approach so that topics are introduced over a period of time and continue to be reinforced consistently throughout the year and over the 3 years. In addition to Saxon math, we supplement with a variety of materials and a variety of approaches since no single method is effective for every child. To balance the direct instructional style of Saxon math, Connected Math's student-directed curriculum will be integrated into the overall 6th grade math program. In addition, the students will be introduced to some computer programming during our gender-based grouping in the spring.