• LordGimp@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Had a statistics and probability class in hs instead of the standard precalc. I feel it’s more applicable for students now than precalc anyways. It felt pretty cool to sit down in class and figure out the odds of winning on a lotto ticket and when the odds indicate you should buy a ticket.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah pre-calc is pretty much remedial math nowadays. You don’t even get 100 level math until you’re at intermediate algebra!

      Thinking of it in terms of statistics makes a lot of sense, I can see how this problem would help develop intuitions.