Thursday, September 27, 2007

Scatterplots

HW: Ch. 7 #4, 6, 8
If you didn't get c, d and e right on the test, you need to also do:
Ch. 6 #28

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Test tomorrow!

Here is a nice answer from the practice test from chapter 3 about smoking and education level:

The data suggest that a higher percentage of non-smokers continue their education beyond High School than smokers.
Non-smokers have a higher percentage of 4-year college attendees (48%) than smokers (26%). Less of non-smokers have only High School educations (40%) than smokers (64%). Therefore, smoking habits are associated with education level and these variables are NOT independent.


Here is my answer from the CUSS'ing quiz about Halloween candy:

Note to self: since one data set is skewed, I will use the median and IQR:

The boys collected more candy than girls with a median of 62 compared to 45.5.
The boys were skewed left whereas the girls are fairly symmetrical.
(note: no comparison word really needed)
The boys have slightly more spread than the girls. The boys have an
IQR of 31 and a range of 65, while the girls have an IQR of 25 and a
range of 60.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Homecoming

Today in class we made a Flip-chart.

If you finish the review by Monday and give me a chance card.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Review assignment starting on page 105

UNIT  I Review problems
# 5, 21(outlier test on c!),
#25-27, 29(a-g + make a box-plot),
#31, 32  
Double stamped:  
once Friday (for starting)
once Tuesday (when you should be DONE)
            Or by Monday for a Chance Card!

ALSO:  Article #2 due Friday
http://www.mrderksen.com/art2.htm

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The end of Unit I

Ch. 6: Finish #25, 26, 27

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Are you normal?

HW: Ch. 6 #25ab, 26ab

Monday, September 17, 2007

A nice answer from the quiz

Note to self: since one data set is skewed, I will use the median and IQR:

The boys collected more candy than girls with a median of 62 compared to 45.5.

The boys were skewed left whereas the girls are fairly symmetrical.
(note: no comparison word really needed)

The boys have slightly more spread than the girls. The boys have an
IQR of 31 and a range of 65, while the girls have an IQR of 25 and a
range of 60.

Starting Chapter 6

We started chapter 6.
We will finish it on Wednesday, so hang on tight.
Test on chapters 1-6 next Wednesday.
Don't forget Article #2 is due Friday.

Classwork: Ch. 6 #5, 6, 11
HW:
Ch. 6 #7 and 15
Ch. 5 #30 (you have the ogive on your handout to write on)

Friday, September 14, 2007

Ogives!

Today we did a worksheet on ogives. You can/should do #29 in Chapter
5 to see what you missed.

It looks like our schedule for next week is this:
Mon-Wed: Work very hard and focused and do Chapter 6
Thur-Fri: Review
Mon: Review
Tues or Wed: Test on Unit 1: Chapters 1-6

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Last homework for the week

Ch. 5 #5b, 6, 22

Fun web site o' the day:
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/ph/stddev.html

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Put that calculator to work!

HW: Ch. 5 #5a, 14, 21, 26, 36, 41

Website from today:
http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/modules/shodor/plop/

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Outlier Rule

HW: Parent Signature and Ch. 5 #23b

Monday, September 10, 2007

Here comes chapter 5

HW: Ch. 2 #8; Ch. 5 #23cd, #35b + boxplot

Tutoring this week: Wed and Thur, 2:30 - 3:15

Last Friday we discussed Ch. 4 #14. We COMPARED the shape, centers
and spreads of the two distributions.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Most Important Stuff in Chapter 4

In class we made a histogram and a calculator for #18
HW: Ch. 4 #8, 12, 17, 24 + Article #1 summary from the web

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

No Homework

No HW.
In class we learned how use Stat Edit (page 11) and Stat Plot (page
43) and we did this with the hair length data from each class.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Week 2!

In class we took notes from the Workshop Stats Book.

HW: Ch. 4 #3,5; Read your syllabus and Chapter 1
Quiz on Tuesday on syllabus and chapter 1

Friday, Aug. 30th

We did a worksheet in class that was a practice test for Chapters 2 & 3.