025411 Mathematics Study 1: Statistics

This subject provides an introduction to the analysis and presentation of data and to elementary concepts, computational procedures and applications of statistics; increases students' awareness of the pervasive influence of statistics and enables them to assist their pupils to acquire knowledge and develop skills which encourage critical evaluation of assertions based on numerical data, particularly in contexts appropriate to the primary and junior secondary school levels; and assists students to develop some facility in the interpretation of statistical information in research literature.