Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Data Analysis and Probability Standard
Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
Expectations (9 - 12)
know the characteristics of well-designed studies, including the role of randomization in surveys and experiments;
Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
Expectations (6 - 8)
use observations about differences between two or more samples to make conjectures about the populations from which the samples were taken;
Expectations (9 - 12)
know the characteristics of well-designed studies, including the role of randomization in surveys and experiments;
understand how sample statistics reflect the values of population parameters and use sampling distributions as the basis for informal inference;