notes (old) book data open office ref the dump research links
 

Week18: 6/13/11

day activity assignment
mon

coke vs pepsi

 

 
tues capture/recapture (need to do atleast 20 capture and recapture)  
wed confidence intervals (need bags of 200 and 40 samples of 20)  
thurs final day  
frid    

Week16: 5/30/11

day activity assignment
mon memorial day  
tues

confidence interval

 

final project continued

 
wed no class - graduation  
thurs final project presentation  
frid    

Week15: 5/23/11

day activity assignment
mon Freak, confidence interval  
tues final project work  
wed sub day  
thurs sub day  
frid creating sample final project from data  

Week14: 5/16/11

day activity assignment
mon

Scatterplots, Correlation coefficient

look up countries

Fix up test4-Bring questions tomorrow
tues

Intro to Final Project, Example, Example2, Review data collection

more correlation coefficient

Fix up test4-DUE TOMORROW
wed test4 makeup, more on correlation  
thurs

article

Example, Example2

problem

 
frid

Freak

Survey questions,

 

Week13: 5/9/11

day activity assignment
mon 10-11grades absent - movie day  
tues Combinations hw23 p222/41-48
wed Combination prob  
thurs Test2 review 1,2  
frid Test2  

Week12: 5/2/11

day activity assignment
mon

more on compound

 

start blackjack

 
tues

video

more blackjack

 
wed intro to permutations HW20 p221/finish 13, 14-26
thurs

combinations

hand shakes and 3 groupies activity

HW21 p221/27-40
frid

combinations.

yahtzee

 

 

Week11: 4/25/11

day activity assignment
mon

Finish chapter in freakonomics

compound probability

 
tues

article

compound notes

 

hw17 p209/11-17,21,29-37 [only odd]
wed

bday problem intro

sample

audio

hw18 p211/40-46 [those who won the bet dont have to do it]
thurs

reviewed compound

starting counting rules

permutation/combination link

hw19 p220/1-13
frid

quiz9

German tank problem

 

 

Week10: 4/11/11

day activity assignment
mon

monty hall

simulator

notes

 
tues

Monty Hall article

nice day - outside to measure car data (ie gender/passengeR)

compound probability

 
wed

article

exp vs theoretical prob

review problems

hw16 - p209/2-5,7,
thurs

peace state

compound probability

 
frid

quiz8

movie freakonomics

 

 

Week9: 4/4/11

day activity assignment
mon makeup day - look at infinite campus and hand in any missing work - if its on the computer email here, or submit to sub.  
tues

 

 

wed

Start with probability

Skim Read chpt 4-2 (in particular look at all examples)

Work on hw together, due THURSDAY

To be handed in:

HW 15 ->p185/1,5-25,29,32,35,36 (for the card problems, look at sample space on

I know its a lot, but its all good practice. Work together and use Mr. K as a resource - he's good with this stuff.

thurs see above see above
frid Quiz on probability - groups of 2  

 

Week8: 3/28/11

day activity assignment
mon

article

more on binomial

read notes

HW13 p337/4-8
tues

article

more on binomial

Histogram Online

questions

short review powerpoint,

HW14 p337/9-13
wed test2 review  
thur test2  
fri makeup day - look at infinite campus and hand in any missing work - if its on the computer email here, or submit to sub.  

 

Week7: 3/21/11

day activity assignment
mon

 

article

short review powerpoint, review coin flip Analysis of questions,

HW11 p316/7, 9,10,11,15,16
tues

Brandon's article

review:Quiz5-more normal

Continue pennies review coin flip online flipping

HW12 p318/23,26,27,28,29,30
wed

article

short review powerpoint, review coin flip Analysis of questions

normal distribution sleepers

binomial distribution

finish prior nights hw
thur

Review activity - find mean/stand dev/histogram of coin flip

Continuous vs. discrete

Correction for Binomial Distribution

2 problem QUIZ6

Practice Problems - binomial distribution

 
fri    

 

Week6: 3/14/11

day activity assignment
mon

History survey, article

Histogram Online

use this data (age of mother is new column)

try to create a histogram.

Normal distribution Visual,

 
tues

Powerpoint on normal distribution,

Normal dist activities (p302/7-39 odd [normal dist table]

notes: solving problems, more powerpoint

hw10 - finish p302/7-39
wed

births percentiles,

normal dist continued - solving for z score from percent

 
thur

births percentiles,

normal dist continued - solving for z score from percent

 

 
fri

 

Quiz5-more normal

 

 

 

Week5: 3/7/11

day activity assignment
mon

article

position

 

tues

birth data

more on percentile/relative position

 
wed

article - activity

simplified charts

birth data

HW9/

Using birth data find the

3rd,15th,50th,85th,97th percentiles for boys and girls separately.

thur

american family

test1 review

birth data

 
fri

test1

comp version

finish computer version by Tuesday (bring in questions monday)

comp version

 

Week4: 2/28/11

day activity assignment
mon

Article

Sample size activity

 
tues

finish Sample size activity

and pt2

 
wed

sample standard deviation

 

hw8: p129/13(find range,variance and sd) p130/18
thur

article

 

 
fri

article

measures of position

sat data, act data

 

 

Week3: 2/14/11

day activity assignment
mon

article video

stem and leaf plots, practice, quiz2

start central tendency

hw5 p110/5, 12,14

 

tues

survey, summary

gas price data; find mean, median, mode

standard deviation

(gas price data; find mean, median, mode

standard deviation gas link)

hw6 (1,2)
wed

liberal vs. conservative, stats

more standard deviation; with frequency distributions

together:

start with this data

hw7 p130/18,23
thur Project 1  
fri

continue on Project 1

quiz3 on central tendency and spread

 

Week2: 2/7/11

day activity assignment
mon

Article,

Making frequency distributions, histogram in openoffice(or excel) using this data

Create a frequency distribution and histogram for this data:

HW2 - p44/13,17

tues

stats map put in 04103

create histogram,frequency polygon, ogive,

learn about summing, sorting using this data

conduct survey (hair color)

In openoffice,

 

wed

article

finish frequency polygon, ogive

create pareto and pi graph from hair color data

HW3 -p59/15, 16
thur

article

create pareto and pi graph from hair color data

Using the data, make a timeline graph

HW4 -p77/1,9,12
fri

Quiz1

stem and leaf plots, practice, quiz2

 

Week1: 1/31/11
day activity assignment
mon Intro Video (update), Course requirements, intro activity (data)  
tues

ice breakers,the way we were 2010, pre-test

 
wed snow day  
thur

article: maine -oldest,whitest

white states
freq distribution colleges data

fill out survey

finish frequency and percent columns from freq distribution colleges data

fri

article: internet devices

more on freq distribution colleges data

HW1 p43/7,17,18(Just McGwire)