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Winter Trimester

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Nov
16 -20
Wednesday: Getting To Know You Survey

HW: printout/sign policy sheet &
Read Ch. 1

Presentation on Types of Data
(Ch. 1)

Read Ch. 1

Making sense of the Survey & Organizing Data
(Ch. 1)

HW:Make a "Statistical Crossings" puzzle

Data: Sampling methods
Organizing & Displaying Data -  
Frequency Distribution Table, Bar Charts,  Quickplots,

HW: Complete Survey FDT & Charts

Chapter 1 Jeopardy
Displays

HW: DO a "Statistical Crossings" puzzle

Nov
23 - 27

Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break
Nov
23 - 27
Polls & Populations
Measurement Bias-
Alf & Elvis

HW: 1-1 pg 16

 

Sampling Senators

 
Polls & Populations
Measurement Bias-
Stringing you Along

HW: Collect two articles from news that include a poll.
Statistics in the News -
What to Believe ?

Review Articles:

Presentation on Reducing Bias by Sampling
(Ch. 15)

HW: READ Ch 15-1 & 15-2
 

 HW: 1-2 pg 648#1-5, 8-10

Video:
Sampling Methods-Stratified, Cluster, Systematic, SRS

HW: 1-3 pg 648#11-19


Nov 30 -
Dec 4

Organizing Data -
The FDT

HW: pg. 34 # 3 - 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13

Displaying Data Graphically: The Histogram

HW: pg. 45#19 - 23

Displaying Data Graphically: Stem Plots & Time Series Charts

HW: pg.58#42-45, 48, 49, 52

 

Test #1
Data

HW Packet #1 Due

Mathematical Measures of Data:

Measures of Center - Mean, Median, Mode
HW #1:  pg.94

Dec
7 - 11
Measures of Center - Mean, Mode for  "Grouped Data"

HW #2 a:  pg.94

Supreme Justice
Computing the median for "grouped" data

HW #2 b:   pg.94

Weighted Arithmetic Means, & Trimmed Means...

HW: Problems w/ Trimmed Means & pg. 96

Quiz: Centers

Measures of Standard Deviation 
discrete data

HW #4 - Variation (I) pg. 111

 
Dec 21
 - Jan 1
Christmas Break Christmas Break Christmas Break Christmas Break Christmas Break
Jan
4 - 8
Measures of Standard Deviation 
discrete data review

HW #4 - Variation (I) pg. 111

Measures of Standard Deviation 
Grouped data

HW #5 - Variation (II) 
pg. 113

Computing Measures of Position - 5-Number summary & Box plots

HW:  pg.135

Finding Percentiles, Quartiles, Deciles

HW:  pg.126

 

EXAM#2 - Representing Distributions Numerically
HW Packet #2 Due
Jan
11 - 15
D3: Describing Data Distributions
HW:  Problems to Ponder


Video- Picturing Distributions
 

Match game
Matching Graphs & Variables

HW:  

Match game
Matching Centers & Spreads to  Graphs

HW: Comparative Stemplots  

Video- Describing Distributions 
HW: Compare Distributions; Shifting Populations

Bring coins to school tomorrow

CAHSEE  Lab Days
Tues. Per 6 , 4, 2
Weds. Per 5, 3, 1

 
Mar
3 - 7
         
Mar
9 - 13
         
Mar
 16 - 20
  Match game
Matching Centers & Spreads to  Graphs

HW: Comparative Stemplots  

Video- Describing Distributions 
HW: Compare Distributions; Shifting Populations

Bring coins to school tomorrow

CAHSEE  Lab Days
Tues. Per 6 , 4, 2
Weds. Per 5, 3, 1

Comparing Distributions: Shifting Populations, Pro Golf Tours, & Coin Circulations

HW:   

Comparing Lifetimes; a look at comparative boxplots

Wrongful Conclusions 

Mar
23 - 27
  Coefficient of Variation - Chebyshev's Theorem Comparing ACT & SAT Exams
Empirical Rule & Comparing Variations
; The "Zed" score
Empirical Rule &  Grading on a Curve  EXAM #3 - Describing Distributions
Mar 30 - Apr 3   Counting
Tree Diagrams & Multiplication Rule

Combinations & Permutations
 

Probability Video
Chances Are 

 

Probability
How to win at the Wheel of Fortune...
Sample Spaces
Simple & Compound Events

Probability
How to win at the Wheel of Fortune...
Sample Spaces
Simple & Compound Events
Apr
6 - 10
  Spring Break -Holiday Spring Break -Holiday Spring Break -Holiday Spring Break -Holiday
Apr
13 - 17
  Probability
Mutually Exclusive Events "OR" the Addition Rule

Independent Events "AND" the Multiplication Rule

Begin Casino Lab Theory -
Collecting Data from independent events
Empirical Casino Probabilities & the Law of Large Numbers Computing Probabilities
A
Count the ways, or is it Permute the Probability?

Pascal Ah Ha's
A look Pascal's triangle & probability

Apr
20 - 24
 

Probability Distributions
All discrete variables have one!

Wrap up Probability Distributions

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Tues. Per 2,4,6

Deal or NO Deal
What is the expected Value?

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Weds. Per 1,3,5
Thurs. Per 2,4,6

EXAM #4 -Probability

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Fri. Per 1,3,5

April 27 - May 1   Numb3rs & Randomness

Streaky Behavior

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Tues. Per 2,4,6

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Weds. Per 1,3,5
Randomness-What's the Chance
Thurs. Per 2,4,6

Randomness-What's the Chance

STAR Test 
Lab Days

Fri. Per 1,3,5

May
4 - 8
 

Randomness & Normal Distributions

AP Exams this week

 

Randomness & Normal Distributions

Using Z-Scores in Normal Distributions

Using Z-Scores in Normal Distributions

 

May
11 - 15
 

The Short Run &
The "Law of Averages"

AP Exams this week

Randomness Exam

 

Making "Cents" of the Central Limit Theorem

 

 

Sampling Error & The Central Limit Theorem

DUE by today: Project Data

May
18 - 22
  the Central Limit Theorem Sampling Error & The Central Limit Theorem

 

 Confidence Intervals 

DUE by today: Project
FDT & Histogram
Confidence Intervals

 

 

May
25 - 29
  Memorial Day Holiday Confidence Intervals
Confidence Intervals EXAM
LAST DAY TO MAKE UP WORK Wednesday 5/27

Project DUE TODAY

 Review for Final 

 

LAST DAY TO submit MAKE UP WORK  or it converts to a ZERO

June
 1 - 5

  Review for Final Review for Final FINAL EXAM  Make up day

June
8 - 12

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