MATH 218:Elementary Statistics

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 3
Lab hours per week: 0

Prerequisite(s): A grade of “C” or higher in MATH 117
This course is designed for elementary education majors. The emphasis of the course is statistics and probability. Topics include collecting a set of data, methods of organizing data, the “center of data,” the variability of data, standardized scores, sampling, abuses of statistics, probability, theoretical vs. experimental probability, conditional probability, counting techniques, counting different groups, geometric probability, simulations in probability, normal distribution.