MathsYears 12–13Statistics

Correlation and regression

Calculate and interpret correlation coefficients and regression lines; understand limitations

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you're tracking how many hours you study 📚 and your test score 🎯. When one goes up, does the other usually go up too? That's a correlation!

  2. 2

    Here's a scatter plot showing hours studied vs test scores. Each dot is one student.

  3. 3

    What do we call it when one thing goes up and the other goes up too?

  4. 4

    Let's find the line of best fit for these points.

  5. 5

    Drag the line to fit the scatter plot — try to balance the points above and below.

  6. 6

    If hours studied goes up and test score goes down, what kind of correlation is that?

  7. 7

    Match the scatter plot to the correlation type.

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