QSS+Brainstorming

Crime Mapping with probability: Students create algorithm on where to put Sampling: Water sampling--what do we look for? How much does testing cost? What is the cost of not testing (and to whom)? Mathematics of social choice and elections: Is democracy democratic/ What is democracy? Environmental pollution: co2 emissions/global warming/Climate change: Correlations & Regressions. Food Statistics: How much is produced? Where? By whom? Who eats it? Is it healthy? Do these questions vary by country? Bio-med Stats: How do we make sense of statistics Describing the world using statistics Increased temperature and effect on global population. (tie in with correlation) Global Warming and __//An Inconvenient Truth//__ Personal finance: simple interest, compound interest, interest calculated yearly, monthly, daily, continuously Macroeconomic Data: GDP, public finance, debt, deficit, GDP/capita Measures of social wealth, gini coefficient, relative vs. absolute poverty, definition of poverty Misuse and abuse of analytical and descriptive statistics Expected value, investment vs. gambling, what is insurance (health/life/car/property/disaster) and how does it work?
 * Ideas: **

Part 1: __Essential Questions__: What kinds of variables does this involve? How can they be isolated and controlled? Correlation vs. Causation What is interdisciplinary study? How do scientific fields and mathematics overlap?
 * September**: Crime and temperature (climate)--Generating a hypothesis involving crime statistics and environmental factors.
 * Focus on the statistics surrounding crime data
 * Focus on temperature/climate weather patterns
 * Coming together and searching for common patterns between weather and crime

Ambient Temperature and Violent Crime: Tests of the Linear and Curvilinear Hypotheses www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/1979.../84aa.pdf Study looks at the effect temperature has on crime. Results showed that temperature has a positive linear relationship with temperature. As the temperature increases so does violent crime.
 * Project :**

October: Environmental pollution
 * Thought: Look into the records of the contaminated soil by Rhoads. Tie in a project on how to collect/measure/analyze data

November: Disease as a weapon/ WMD

__**Skills:**__ data to answer them. Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data. table, stem-and-leaf plots, circle graph, line graph, and line plot) for a set of data and use appropriate statistics (e.g., mean, median, range, and mode) to communicate information about the data.
 * Graphical visual knowledge:
 * **Trending**
 * Extrapolating and predicting
 * **Correlations**
 * Averages**
 * Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant
 * Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.
 * Valid and invalid resources
 * Select, create, and interpret an appropriate graphical representation (e.g.
 * Design meaningful procedures and experiments to solve problem
 * Using information (statis to create your own hypothesis and theories/ conclusions/ reccommendations
 * Understanding variables. Understanding how to control.
 * How to manipulate data. Discerningly look at data and be able to pick off BS.
 * Understanding Bias in experiment and samples
 * Making inferences/conclusions about raw data.
 * Use computer simulations to model (http://brownfieldaction.org/).