MATH 2450 Fall 2009

 

Aug 24

Collect student data, statistics in the news

HW:  D1 (p. 30), #2

Aug 26

 

Basic principles of graphing

ACTIVITY 1: Introduction to Graphing

Aug 28

Graphing quantitative data

HW: D2 (p. 69), 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16

Aug 31


ACTIVITY 2:  The shape of the data
(four datasets)

 

 

Sept 2

 

Choices of stemplots, histograms

Sept 4

 Measures of center
HW:  D3 (p. 119), 1, 4, 6, 7, 10

Sept 7

 

LABOR DAY - NO SCHOOL

 

Sept 9

 

Measures of spread

ACTIVITY 3: V is for variation

Sept 11

 HW: D3 (p. 119), 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23

Sept 14

 ACTIVITY 4:  Measurement Bias

 

Sept 16

 

Comparing homerun counts for teams in two leagues.

Sept 18

 ACTIVITY 5:  Counting Pasta

HW: D4 (p. 160), 1, 4, 7, 11, 13 + shopping exercise  

Sept 21

 

 

Sept 23

 

ACTIVITY 6:  Predictable Pairs

Sept 25

 

HW: D5 (p. 186) 1, 3, 6, 11, D6 (p. 221) 1, 3, 5 + Internet exercise

 

Sept 28

 

ACTIVITY 7:  Looking at relationship between pre and post scores

 

Sept 30

 

 

Oct 2

 Fitting a best line (neck and wrist measurements)

HW: D7 (p. 278), 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 16, 20

Oct 5

 

ACTIVITY 8:  Fitting line to Olympics running data

Oct 7

 

Regression to the mean

 

TURN IN ACTIVITY BOOK

Oct 9

 

Thinking About Probability
 

HW: P1 (p. 327) 1, 2, 3, 5, 9

Oct 12

 FALL BREAK - NO CLASS

Oct 14

 

REVIEW

Oct 16

 EXAM 1 on data analysis

Oct 19

 

 Sample spaces and assigning probabilities (topic P2)

Oct 21

ACTIVITY 9:  Mothers and Babies
HW: P2 (page 353): 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
HW: P3 (page 386): 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16

Oct 23

ACTIVITY 10: Sampling From a Cup

Oct 26

 

ACTIVITY 11: The Birthday Problem

 

Oct 28

 

Counting Problems

Oct 30

 

ACTIVITY 12:  The 3 Card Problem

 

HW: P4 (page 424) 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11

 

Nov 2

 Conditional probability

Nov 4

 

Conditional probability

Nov 6

 

ACTIVITY 13:  Playing Roulette

HW: P5 (page 458) 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11

 

Nov 9

Random Variables

Nov 11

 

NO CLASS - HOLIDAY

 

Nov 13

 

ACTIVITY 14:  Investing

HW: P6 (page 494), 1, 3, 5, 8 (a, b), 12, 13, 18

 

Nov 16

 Binomial probabilities

Nov 18

 

Binomial probabilities

March madness ICE.

Nov 20

 ACTIVITY 15:  Coin Flipping -  Is it Fake or Real?

Nov 23

HW: P7 (page 538): 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12

 

Nov 25

 
THANKSGIVING BREAK

Nov 27

 

 THANKSGIVING BREAK

Nov 30

 

Continuous random variable, normal curve

 

Dec 2

 
Normal computations.

 

Dec 4

 

Probability review problems.

 

Dec 5

 

Normal computations.

Dec 7

 

 

Dec 11

 

Review