Synopsis:  Students examine the results of a hypothetical study to determine if a medication prevents acne.  In doing so, students uncover that a scientific study needs to examine not only people who are exposed to the medication, but a group of people who are not exposed to the medication.  Students construct 2x2 tables and realize that when they study how an exposure and an outcome (disease) are distributed, every person in the study population fits into one of the four cells of the 2x2 table.  Students also realize that the way an exposure and an outcome are distributed in a group of people can be expressed mathematically.

All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making, and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and / or modeling scientific theories.

All students will learn and apply health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

All students will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways.

All students will represent and analyze relationships among variable quantities and solve problems involving patterns, functions, and algebraic concepts and processes.

All students will develop an understanding of the concepts and techniques of data analysis, probability, and discrete mathematics, and will use them to model situations, solve problems, and analyze and draw appropriate inferences from data.

All students will use mathematical processes of problem solving, communication, connections, reasoning, representations, and technology to solve problems and communicate mathematical ideas.

All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

All students will demonstrate critical life skills in order to be functional members of society.