Analyze This!

By Brandon Courtney, Community Director

Math is often struggle for young women entering Spring Ridge, and is often one of the least popular classes among our new students. Our math instructors often work with students in challenging self limiting beliefs about their ability to comprehend mathematics. The result is that many of our students after working with their instructors find a new appreciation for math. Spring Ridge offers a wide range of math classes from Algebra to Introduction to Statistics.

Recently, students in our Introduction to Statics class completed their final projects. Only rather than analyze the number of green Skittles to red Skittles in 20 bags of candy (my undergrad “research” project, results available on request) our students were provided with actual testing data. Our students and their parent’s complete a BASC-2 assessment upon admission and then repeat the assessment when students leave the program. Students in our Introduction to Statistics course were able to sample this data (all personal student information i.e. names, ID#s, etc, was removed from tests samples) and came out with some interesting findings. Students were able to see a real world example of how to compile actual research and interpret findings.