Statistics show people eat more berries when the weather is nice. Young entrepreneurs learn how stores use statistics like this to plan their advertising and sales strategies. The narrator uses various examples to show how important statistics are to the business world. 

Concepts

statistical questions, statistics, making predictions, bias

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have pupils choose an occupation field and analyze their use of statistics
• Give individuals a specific statistic and ask how they would use it to make business decisions

Classroom Considerations

• Best to use the resource following the previous lesson to show how predictions don't always succeed
• 44th video in a CrashCourse statistics series
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes several real-world examples from multiple occupations
• References additional lessons that support the content

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 HSS-IC.A.1 RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.7