Students are introduced to volume as a measure of filling and to surface area as a measure of wrapping. After developing strategies for measuring the surface areas and volumes of rectangular prisms, students use their new knowledge to develop strategies for determining the surface area and volume of cylinders, cones, spheres, and irregular solids. This unit seeks to help students make connections between probability and statistics. Students explore what samples are and how they are related to populations, ways to select populations, and the use of random numbers. Issues of representativeness and bias in data analysis are also addressed in this unit.
Students develop an appreciation and understanding of the process of statistical investigation.
In our final unit, students extend their understanding of how mathematics can be used to model real-life situations. Extensive use of the graphing calculator is present this unit.