You can teach basic statistics without a lot of math background.
If your class of 12 year old physics students has just timed a block of wood sliding down a sloped plank at different angles, and plotted an X/Y chart of their results, you can just have them put a best fit line through the points by eye.
No need for matrices or differentiation or X-transpose-X-inverse-X-transpose-y - just bang a line through the data by eye.
If your class of 12 year old physics students has just timed a block of wood sliding down a sloped plank at different angles, and plotted an X/Y chart of their results, you can just have them put a best fit line through the points by eye.
No need for matrices or differentiation or X-transpose-X-inverse-X-transpose-y - just bang a line through the data by eye.