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!

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Competition Information

Information about the Southern California stats event at City of Hope can be found at:

The national ASA information is at:

Friday, May 01, 2009

resources

I had this nifty packet at the Friday review, but I didn't let you take it home.  If you want a copy, you can find here:

If you want the answers to the '02 or '07 MC, email me.

Last weekend!

If you're feeling stuck or frustrated, feel free to email me:
mrmathman@gmail.com

You guys are going to do great!
Mr. D

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Friday review session

I'm available Friday from 1:30 to 7pm
Bring $5 if you want to order pizza at around 4:15.
I'll bring soda and water.
See you then!

O answers

If you want to check your answers to practice test O, click on the Blog Archive on right.  #1-5 are under April 2008 and #6 is May 1, 2008

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Keep practicing!

Finish test O
Keep working on MC '07!