Monday, August 31, 2009

Review and test

This week:
Monday:  Unit 1 review, page 105 #7, 16, 21, 29 a-e, 31 and 32
Tuesday:  practice, practice.  Tutoring
Wednesday:  Jeopardy?!?
Thursday:  Test (no tutoring)
Friday:  StatCrunch in the library computer lab
3-day weekend!!!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

standard deviation!

Ch. 5 #5, 6, 36

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Chapter 5!

#12, 14, 24, 25, 35

Sunday, August 23, 2009

StatCrunch this week

Assignment 1:

  • Go to My Groups
  • Click on RCHS group
  • Click on the First Day of school data
  • Make a graph of one or more variables on the survey
  • Describe
  • Print graph and description
Assignment 2:
  • Find some data. Lots of it.
  • You have to find data that contains both categorical and quantitative variables on the individuals.
  • Go to My Data
  • On the left, you'll see some options, choose the one that works.
  • Make sure to Share with our group:
  • If you are viewing the data in the StatCrunch, click Edit and then you can share.

  • There is a cool new option that will grab data from a website
  • Go to http://www.statcrunch.com/bookmarklet
  • Go to that page and read about adding a bookmark called "StatcrunchThis".
  • Then go to the website you want to grab.
  • Click the bookmark
  • Save and data and share it.
Make sure you have described your data so that everyone knows what all the variables mean.
You may do Assignment #2 with a partner IF both of you have joined the AP Stats group.
After you have done assignment #2, email me with your names, your names in StatCrunch and the name of your data set.

Assignment #1 will be checked in class on Friday.
Assignment #2 must be done by 8pm on Thursday night. Anyone who does not receive a reply email from me by 9pm on Thursday night will be considered late.

Find an interesting data set about something you care about!!!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

a little more chapter 4

Ch. 4 #13, 28

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

data, data

Ch. 3 #20
Ch. 4 #9, 12, 17, 24
Don't forget:  if technology fails you, just make a dotplot!
Or you could try making a graph on Statcrunch!
#24 is a problem with statistics done WRONG.  You task is to figure out what is wrong.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Nada

No homework today.
If you missed class, read the TI-Tip on page 11 and learn how to put data in your calculator.  Then read (in chapter 4) how to make a histogram.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Review

Ch. 2 #8
Ch. 3 #14
In class we learned how CUSS!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

independent?

Today we started looking at the very important idea of independence.
In class we did Ch. 3 #17 and 18
For homework:  Ch. 3 #15

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Pie!

Ch. 2 #7
Ch. 3 #6, 8

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Who?

Ch. 2 #2-6
Read Chapter 1

Monday, August 10, 2009

Day 1

Get set up at StatCrunch.com (instructions below)
Read your syllabus
Get a graphing calculator

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Stat Crunch instructions

Go to:  Statcrunch.com
Click:  Subscribe
Click:  Redeem access code (under the student section!)
Accept terms and then click No
Choose a login name THAT I CAN RECOGNIZE AS YOU!
Enter password and code
Enter personal info

Now find our group and join it!
RCHS AP stats (2nd page of groups)
Then take the survey!