Happy Holidays!

Just wanted to wish you all the happiest of holidays and enjoy your week off!

Holiday break!

We made it! We're about halfway to the AP exam...Wednesday May 16th!

Please make sure to complete your Ch. 14 Reading Questions (this can be found under the Powerpoints and Assignments) for our return on Tuesday, 1/3. NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED!

Feel free to email with any questions.

If for some reason you did not turn in your take home test you must email it to be before tomorrow (Friday) or you will lose lost 5 points for each day it's late.

I hope everyone enjoys break and I look forward to getting into probability when we're back!

Dear AP Statistics Students,

Happy Holidays! First and foremost, thank you G period for the card! That truly made my day yesterday (sorry I have to give you a test today instead of returning the favor). To those of you who have given me snowflakes or cards or gifts or delicious snacks, I send another heartfelt thank you. And a special thank you to my H period crew who has spent every day this year on the statistics grind during study hall.

Butttt….that’s not really why I’m writing ya’ll (yeah, I just did that) this letter; I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your hard work thus far. I know I’ve been extra tough on you, especially with the plethora of days we’ve missed, but I hope you all know it’s only because I think you can do better. We can all do better. To the students who have come after school or during lunch or before classes begin, I appreciate your hard work. To those who always come to class prepared with homework completed, you are not overlooked and I thank you. And to those of you who have struggled or have not done your best so far, step your game up! No more incomplete assignments!

You are all intelligent young people and a joy to be around. It is because of you that I love coming to school each day and miss it on our days off. Thank you for making each class fun, but at the same time, productive. If we keep this pace up through the AP exam we’re going to have our best year of scores at EHHS.

I wish you all the happiest of holidays. Let’s all (including me) challenge ourselves to continue to improve over the remainder of the year.

Of course I have to remind you to start off right after break; come with a 20/20 on your reading questions (which will count as a quiz grade)—don’t procrastinate! And as always, check the blog and/or email me with any questions.

Again, thank you all for a great start. I love you guys!

Sincerely,
Fred Carofano

Thank you for the card! And snowflakes! And gifts!

To those of you who signed my card (period G), thank you all so much! You truly made my day with that! I hope that you know, despite my snyde comments sometimes, that I equally appreciate all of you and your hard work. Thank you to those who gave me snowflakes and gifts and such...really, it means so much!

Now I have to sound like a grinch...

Your TAKE HOME TEST IS DUE TOMORROW! No exceptions!

As you enter you will start your multiple choice exam. There are 25 questions; however, you will be graded based only on 22; that gives you three extra questions to earn points and boost your grade! So come early and get started.

In regard to break work--you will have to read chapter 14. You will not have a reading quiz; instead, tomorrow I will post 15 questions on the blog that you will have to answer (a lil' guided reading question action).

Study hard tonight! Hope to see many of you after school later!

Monnnnnnday HW

Tonight it's back to the grind on that take home test DUE THURSDAY!

If you haven't yet, tomorrow is the last day to hand in your Saturday permission slip (and I need it regardless of your attendance!)

All of those at the English exam today--hope it went well! Tomorrow we'll get back to work in Stat; you do not need to make up any work from today, just keep working on that take home test.

And just so you know...the test is posted electronically under "Powerpoints and Assignments!"

Sorry for the late post...

I apologize for the late post, I just got home from my first visit to see my niece in Syracuse!

I've uploaded your take home exam (DUE THURSDAY) under our Powerpoints and Assignments link. Look for the document *Methods of Data Collection: Take Home Exam.*

Also, please remember your Saturday Session permissions slip is due tomorrow, regardless if you're coming or not. If you say you'll attend it's of the utmost importance that you actually do.

Tomorrow and Tuesday we'll work more on experimental design. Wednesday we'll introduce a lil' probability. For those of you in the English mock exam, good luck--try your best, try to give yourself a good gauge of the challenges ahead to prepare for May. Those of you in G period, head to your Psychology class and think about connections to Statistics as you're there.

Four more days 'til the holiday break! Be ready to put in some hard work!

Thursday HW

Please complete the final set of problems from your textbook for chapter 13 (regarding observational studies):

Page 313:
20, 30, 31, 37 ANNNNND....number 5 and 6 on our blocking activity from class.

Also, your Saturday permission slip is DUE MONDAY. I'd recommend you get it in tomorrow so you don't have to worry about it over the weekend!

One more thing...we have our multiple choice test on data collection next Thursday; the sooner you start studying, the better, so I'd review my notes and maybe even do a few problems from the Part III review in your text!

Wednesday HW

THERE WILL NOT BE A QUIZ ON BIAS TOMORROW. INSTEAD, YOU WILL HAVE 8 MC QUESTIONS REGARDING EXPERIMENTS.

Tonight please complete the following:

page 314: 34,36,38,39


Also, your Saturday Session permission slip is DUE MONDAY! Don't forget!


Below you can see an experimental design we wrote in period E...pretty good stuff...

Tuesday HW

We will have an after school review on THURSDAY to discuss methods of data collection--simulations, surveys, and experiments. We will have a TEST NEXT THURSDAY.

Here is your homework for tonight:

Page 313: 19, 28, 33, 35, 43

Here's what I'm expecting for an experimental design (number 28):

Monday HW!

Please complete the following four book problems tonight:

page 313: 10,13,24,25

Weekend HW!

The holiday break is getting closer with each day! Tomorrow we'll get into chapter 13 some more as we aim to finish this unit by the break (at the latest).

Over the weekend please complete the following:

page 313: 1, 14, 23, 27

Also, remember your TEST CORRECTIONS ARE DUE MONDAY!

I've uploaded the chapter 13 powerpoint under our "powerpoints and assignments" if you're interested.

Thursday HW!

STUDY! You have your vocab test tomorrow! You need an A! Get focused!

Also, the crossword puzzle (extra credit) is DUE TOMORROW.

And test corrections are DUE MONDAY.

Wednesday HW

Please complete both "number 2's" on the AP problem sheet provided in class.

Tomorrow you'll have about 10-15 minutes to finish your multiple choice; if you're worried about time take a look at some of those this evening.

See you manana!

Tuesday HW

Please complete the following problems in your textbook:

Page 289: 9,18,19,21,28

*No evens, no credit!*

Tomorrow we'll talk about any homework concernes and do a bunch of practice (in groups) in class before moving on to experimental design on Thursday/Friday.

No homework tonight! (Good time to get ahead...)

There is no homework due tomorrow, but you have plenty of things lingering to consider.

• Test corrections are due Friday. I'll be after school each day this week for help.


• Vocab Test is Friday. The list is on the right of the blog.


• Crossword puzzle due Friday.

Tomorrow in class we'll finish up our notes with bias(es), and then Wednesday we'll look at some AP problems for practice.

Weekend HW

Please complete the Chapter 12 Quiz A/C worksheet provided in class. I know we haven't formally named all of these sample types and biases in class, but you should use your notes (from reading the chapter) to help you figure this out. We'll allude to this homework as we push to finish up chapter 12 by Wednesday.

(Our goal is to test on this unit by Christmas break).

Also, the crossword puzzle is an extra credit homework assignment.

We also have a quiz Monday on linear regression. Be sure you can:
1. Interpret slope
2. Interpret y-intercept
3. Interpret the coefficient of determination (R^2)
4. Find correlation given R^2.
5. Calculate a residual (first generate a predicted value with the equation, then find a residual)>

Finally, you all should be working on corrections to make up your test. I will be after school Monday for those who need help with some of the problems.

Enjoy the weekend and I look forward to seeing you all Monday!

Thursday HW

Almost made it through the whole week!

Please complete teh following: page 289: 5, 7, 8