Some students enroll in Math 201 to learn descriptive and inferential statistics. Others simply enroll in the course in order to satisfy a requirement imposed on them by their choice of major. Still others intend for the course to satisfy the Quantitative Skills requirement of the Associate of Arts degree at WWCC. Whatever your reasons for enrolling, I want welcome you to the course and let you know that Math 201 is unlike any algebra based math course you've taken. While algebra (Math 95: Intermediate Algebra) is a prerequisite for this course, you may surprised to learn that we will not solve many equations, nor simplify many expressions, nor graph many functions in the traditional sense. So what will we spend our time learning? I've included a few links which provide more information about Statistics for your reading pleasure. By the end of the course you should have a much better idea as to what "Statistics" is all about.

American Statistical Association: "What is Statistics? What do Statisticians do?"
Wikipedia: "Statistics"
U.S. Census Bureau: "The 2006 Statistical Abstracts"
Mathworld: "Probability and Statistics"

WWCC's Math Lab on campus in Walla Walla is open for students daily from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm.