PeachyDoodle Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 My dd14 is leaning towards an eventual degree/career in applied statistics or actuarial science. She's an advanced math student, and we have some time in her high school schedule, so I've been kicking around the idea of taking a semester off from her regular curriculum and pursuing a math research project of some type. I have no idea what this would look like. I was an English major. 😳 She has a current fascination with personality types (particularly the MBTI) and I wonder if we could incorporate that somehow? Any advice or resources for how to get started designing something like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 My son is taking an advanced statistics class (post AP) where he does projects like this (I think they also did a project in his AP class at the end of the year). Look up "statistics project ideas." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 7 minutes ago, square_25 said: What math does she currently know? This is, of course, a key point. I think that it would be ill advised to do a statistics project without knowing statistics first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 She will finish trig/precalc sometime this fall. After that she will dual enroll for calculus but not before her junior year. Hence, the time to possibly work on a project. She has done some work with statistics but hasn't completed a full course yet. It doesn't have to be a stats project. At this point I am just trying to gather enough info that we could begin the process of determining *what* kind of project it could be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, square_25 said: Has she done probability? Do you want an applied project (studying something in the real world using math) or perhaps learning how something (computers? Cryptography? Randomized algorithms?) works? Yes, she knows probability. I think something applied would be her preference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 She can code some. To the rest, I'm not sure. I'd have to ask her. Like I said, this is so far outside my wheelhouse as to be a foreign language. I haven't discussed it with her yet because she gets overwhelmed if things are too open-ended. I'm hoping to have at least some idea of what I'd like to see before I bring it up to her. But obviously I... don't. 🙂 Maybe I should have started by looking at some projects to try to get an idea of how these things are structured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 So I talked to her... and she doesn't seem overwhelmed at all! She was actually super excited and said she already had some ideas, but she's going to take a few weeks to get her thoughts together. I'm not sure where it will all lead, but we are definitely going to take a look at the site @square_25 linked and see if we can start putting something together. Thanks y'all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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