Independent/Dependent Events

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    monkeymom33
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    I am trying to figure out the SP standards for grade 7 . Should I be teaching independent events and dependent events? What about permutations and combinations?

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    Bill McCallum
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    No, these are both high school topics. See

    S-CP.A.2. Understand that two events A and B are independent if the probability of A and B occurring together is the product of their probabilities, and use this characterization to determine if they are independent.

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    S-CP.B.9 (+) Use permutations and combinations to compute probabilities of compound events and solve problems.

    Note that the latter is a (+) standard, and so beyond the college and career ready threshold. So certainly not necessary in Grade 7!

    (By the way, you can answer a lot of these questions using a word search on the pdf of the standards, available at corestandards.org.)

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