Course topics.

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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The statistical investigation process and describing association in percentaged two-way tables
• Scatterplots, direction-form-strength, the correlation coefficient r and the coefficient of determination
• Fitting and interpreting the least-squares line, residual plots, interpolation and extrapolation
• Association versus causation: coincidence, confounding and common response
• Arithmetic sequences: recursion, nth-term rules and linear growth and decay
• Geometric sequences: recursion, nth-term rules and exponential growth and decay
• First-order linear recurrence relations, long-term behaviour and steady state
• Graphs, digraphs and networks: terminology, adjacency matrices and multi-stage matrices
• Planar graphs, faces and Euler's formula v + f − e = 2
• Walks, trails, paths, cycles, shortest paths, Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs
• Time series plots: trend, seasonality, irregular fluctuations and outliers
• Smoothing a time series with simple moving averages
• Seasonal indices by the average percentage method, deseasonalising and predicting from the trend line
• Compound interest loans and investments: recurrence relations and the effective annual rate
• Solving compound interest and depreciation problems with the finance solver
• Reducing balance loans: recurrence models, repayments and time to repay
• Annuities and perpetuities: recurrence models and finance-solver problems
• Trees, spanning trees, Prim's algorithm and minimum connector problems
• Project networks, forward and backward scanning, critical paths and float
• Maximum flow-minimum cut and assignment problems with the Hungarian algorithm