STAtistics Monthly Schedule

(AP Statistics, Period F)

W 9/4/02	First day of class. Handout #1: STAtistics Class Policies and Required Equipment Handout #2: Learn the Alphabet Handout #3: Elements of Good Math HW
Th 9/5/02	Quiz #1 (5 pts.): Alphabet Mastery Quiz. HW due today: Bring an example (newspaper or magazine clipping preferred, Web page or verbal description OK) of misuse/abuse of statistics from the popular media. If you wish to work with a partner, only one clipping is required per pair, but both people must be able to summarize the clipping verbally. If you prefer to work alone, just bring the clipping. Additional HW due today: Send an e-mail message with your name (first and last). Please indicate the name by which you wish to be addressed and a pronunciation key if necessary. If you have more than one e-mail account, please send your message from the one that you check most frequently. In class: STAtistics short course, day 1 of 4. Note: These briefing slides are available under the Blackboard site. Go to the course entitled "Statistics for Pollsters" and view the announcement posted there regarding the PowerPoint file. You should already be enrolled in the course. If you have any problems accessing this information, please contact me or Mr. Verkouteren.
F 9/6/02	Note: Because the Cathedral server was down last night, we will postpone Quiz #2 until Monday 9/9. In class: STAtistics short course, day 2 of 4. Reminder: Please see the note above concerning how to access these slides under your Blackboard account.
M 9/9/02	Quiz #2 (5 pts.): Eight words that summarize the four topic areas of AP Statistics. You can find these by visiting the College Board site. Everyone will take this quiz today, including the late arrivals. HW due today (for all students, including late arrivals): Bring in your newspaper or magazine clippings showing misuse/abuse of statistics. Reading assignment for today: If you have some time over the weekend, please start reading Chapter 1 of the blue textbook. We will tackle the textbook beginning on Thursday 9/12. Makeup quiz today for late arrivals: Alphabet Mastery Quiz based on Handout #2. You will need to get the notes from one of your classmates in order to know the names of the Greek letters, since otherwise you will be lost when asked to write, for example, a sigma. In class: STAtistics short course, day 3 of 4.
T 9/10/02	HW assignment: Continue reading in Chapter 1 (§§1.1 and 1.2 at minimum). In class: STAtistics short course, day 4 of 4.
W 9/11/02	No class today (only "A" period will hold regular class at the regular time). Continue reading in your textbook.
Th 9/12/02	Quiz #3: Reading comprehension quiz designed to assess whether you read §§1.1 and 1.2 carefully.
F 9/13/02	HW due: #1.8, 1.44. In class: Begin Project #1 by analyzing the fake sleep data.
M 9/16/02	HW due: Make sure you have saved your Project #1 spreadsheet with totals in column E, worksheet titles set, and a time series graph in place (as we discussed during class on Friday). Your HW spot check at the beginning of class will be to ensure that you are at least at this point in the assignment. If you fell behind because of equipment problems or other difficulty, please see me or call me over the weekend to get caught up. Additional instructions will be distributed Monday 9/16 during class.
T 9/17/02	No additional HW due today (watch Washington defeat Philadelphia Monday night?). In class: Finish discussion and problems from §§1.1 and 1.2, then spend last half of period on Project #1.
W 9/18/02	HW due: Read §2.1 and prepare a list of your questions.
Th 9/19/02	HW due by 3:00 p.m. today: Project #1. We will have approx. 20 minutes in class to finish this up. If you were absent on Monday and were unable because of an arts commitment to attend Math Lab on Wed., 9/18, you may speak to me about an extension. All others are expected to meet today’s due date.
F 9/20/02	HW due: Read §2.2 and prepare a list of your questions. If you cannot think of any questions, find an odd-numbered problem for which you could not match the book’s answer. Quiz (15 pts.) on §§2.1-2.2 and recent class discussions, with emphasis on §2.1. Remember that all normal-curve problems require a sketch.
M 9/23/02	HW due: Chapter 2 #2.28, 2.34-2.44 even.
T 9/24/02	No additional HW due. Please use this day to clean up your Chapter 2 HW so that we can finish going over it. “Volunteers” may be tapped to present problems on the board.
W 9/25/02	HW due: Prepare a rough draft (a few sentences) of a proposal for the exploratory data analysis project that you and your new group members will undertake. In class: Discuss project proposals. New concepts: granularity, scatterplot, positive/negative association, correlation does not imply causation, hiding/unhiding columns in Excel, lurking variables, problems with data quality.
Th 9/26/02	HW due: Revised proposal for Project #1A. If you also have time to prepare your milestone list, please do so. Otherwise, send your milestones to me by Friday, 9/27. In class: Continue covering Chapter 2 HW. By now your problems should be quite clean.
F 9/27/02	HW due: Milestones for Project #1A.
M 9/30/02	In class: More about normal curves, including invNorm.

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