Homeschool High School Statistics Course with Class Schedule & Resources
A Homeschool High School Statistics Course is an excellent addition to a high school education whether or not your student is college-bound.
The Homeschool High School Statistics Course is a foundational class for your student to have under their belt before graduating from high school.
Many students who are continuing their education with college will want to have competence with these skills and topics since it’s a required class for almost every major. And students who aren’t going on to college will need these
This homeschool high school statistics course teaches descriptive statistics, probability, samples, surveys, and more.
After completing this course, your student should be able to take the AP Statistics exam, if they desire.
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Why should my kids take statistics anyway? They don’t know if they are going to college.
I wanted all of my kids to learn about statistics and have a basic idea about how they are generated because so much data we receive as consumers of products and consumers of the news is actually in a statistical format (whether we realize it or not).
Secondly, my kids were all interested in pursuing higher education in science and engineering fields where statistics is often used.
Other areas that use statistics are medicine (even nursing), business and marketing, social sciences, wildlife conservation,…okay, pretty much every field uses statistics LOL
Do your kids like baseball or basketball stats? That’s literally statistics 🙂
Finally, gaining an understanding of how statistics are derived helps with higher-level thinking and reasoning which will develop better logical and creative skills.
This Homeschool High School Statistics Course lends itself well to your student being able to self-teach, so if you don’t know (or remember much about) statistics, you can learn right along with them!
Life of Fred Statistics Course
All three of my kids took a Homeschool High School Statistics Course. With my oldest, we used a statistics book that we found to be difficult to understand.
So, we tried Life of Fred Statistics for the middle child and enjoyed it – so the youngest used it also!
The book presents statistics using a silly story format. It includes quite a few practice problems.
Required Resources for this Homeschool High School Statistics Course:
Note: All of the newer high school level books for Life of Fred have been updated into “expanded editions” that include the teacher’s book and answers.
- Life of Fred Statistics or Life of Fred Statistics Expanded Edition book by Stanley Schmidt. You can often find used copies on many bookseller sites and at used curriculum stores, and new copies are often less expensive at homeschool book sellers such as Rainbow Resource. If you get the older, original edition, you will also need the teacher book for the answers.
- A calculator that has the keys “sin, cos, and log. NOT a graphing calculator.
- Life of Fred Statistics Class Schedule & Resources PDF (scroll down to get your copy)
Here are extra, optional, resources you can use in the Statistics Class for high school:
Overview:
If your student is grumbling over having to take this class, have them watch this TED Talk by Alan Smith first. It might just change their mind. 🙂
Crash Course Statistics Videos This playlist has interesting videos about every main topic in this course. The “preview” video gives a few oddball ways in which statistics are used. For example, Walmart stocks up on a specific item before storms and it’s not bread or milk.
If your student will take the AP Statistics exam at the end of this course, they may want to review using this Math is Fun site.
For fun:
It’s a Numbers Game! Basketball or It’s a Numbers Game! Baseball by James Buckley Jr.
Our World in Numbers by DK
There are many more additional resources, links, and activities listed in the printable PDF for this course.
Completing the Homeschool High School Statistics Course:
This homeschool high school Statistics course schedule was designed to be completed over the course of thirty weeks, working on the class three days per week. This gives you plenty of time to stop and review, or to catch up on missed days if you typically complete 36 weeks (180 days) of school.
The statistics class schedule lists the page numbers in the book to read and the problem sets to complete. The problem sets have odd names such as “Empire” and “Garland”.
With some of the problem sets, we just completed the odd-numbered problems. That is indicated in the schedule. If your child needs further practice, you could have them work on all of the problems.
On the high school transcript, we called the class “Statistics” and gave one credit hour. You can count it as a math class after beginning algebra instead of advanced algebra if your child is not planning to attend college. Or you could count it as an elective for your students
To determine how much credit you should give your student, count the hours your student spends on the class.
This class is best completed by an upper-level high school student who has a good grasp of Algebra.
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