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Friday, October 13, 2017

Test Monday! HW = Study!

Monday (10/16): Unit 1 Vocabulary Exam (30 minutes) followed by a little review--we'll take a look at some of the AP MC we didn't finish today; I'll also be after school until about 3:15 on Monday to review for our "math test" on Tuesday.
  • See below for an outline of what's on our vocab test Monday
Tuesday *(10/17): Unit 1 Exam (AP free response and multiple choice).

  • If you want to get a head start studying you should finish the multiple choice we did today in class! Be sure you know how to solve all of these--there are a couple MC on our test that look similar to those on today's classwork!
  • We'll discuss a couple of them after our test on Monday... 
Wednesday to Friday: Start Unit 2--Linear Regression
  • Tuesday night's homework will be to review/study the "Linear Regression" stuff we covered in the summer, as this will not be re-taught in class (and we'll have a quiz on it next week!)
  • If you missed the summer academy you will have to catch up on all of this!
    • I will be after school on Wednesday to review the summer stuff regarding linear regression (which is also reviewing for the chapter 7 quiz we'll probably have on Friday 10/20)
Here's an outline of what you need to know/study for Monday's vocab test:
  • Open Ended Questions (Short Answer)
    • Know the preferred (or appropriate) measures of center and spread for a symmetric distribution
    • Know the preferred (or appropriate) measures of center and spread for a skewed distribution
    • Be able to list all measures of center (mean, median, midrange, mode)
    • Be able to list all measures of spread (standard deviation, IQR, range, variance)
    • Know which graphs are used for each type of data
      • Categorical data: bar graph, pie chart, frequency table
      • Quantitative data: histogram, boxplot, stemplot, dotplot, ogive
    • Describe the shape of a histogram (in two ways...)
      • Unimodal, bimodal, multimodal, uniform
      • Skewed left, skewed right, roughly symmetric
    • Know how skewness affects mean (and that it doesn't affect median as much)
      • Know which values are sensitive to/resistant to extremes
      • Know when the mean is less than the median, mean is greater than the median, or mean is roughly equal to the median (based on shape)
  • Vocabulary List (Matching)
    • Use your past vocab quizzes (chapter 2,4,5) to study
    • There are four new words from chapter 6
      • Shifting
      • Rescaling
      • Z-Score/Standardized score (how is it calculated? what does it measure?)
      • Normal Model
    • Here's the rest of the vocab:
      • Quantitative Variable
      • Categorical Variable
      • Stemplot
      • Dotplot
      • Boxplot
      • Histogram
      • Ogive
      • Center
      • Spread
      • Mean
      • Median
      • Range
      • Standard Deviation
      • Variance
      • Interquartile Range (IQR--what is it? what does it measure?)
      • Outlier (both in regard to fences and outliers based on the Normal model)
      • Q1
      • Q3
      • Percentile
      • Skewed left
      • Skewed Right
Study, study, study! There is no reason you shouldn't get an A on this test if you're willing to put in the work and prepare yourself to do so! Have an awesome weekend and come ready to ace this thing on Monday!

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