Wednesday HW

Please complete the following problems:

Page 90: 10, 14, 34, 35, 42

Remember, we have our chapter 5 quiz on Friday. Tomorrow I will address any and all homework questions during our shortened period; if any time remains, we will start chapter 6.

This weekend your homework will be to read chapter 6 (and take notes if you like); there will likely be a reading quiz on Monday.

Those of you at the Big E--first off, I hope you had fun! I know you're back a little later tonight, so you can all give me the assignment above on Friday (but no later!). Also, you need not complete the odds due today, as you should be doing the comparing boxplots activity/matching instead.

I'll be posting later with some model explanations in comparing boxplots; these are incredibly important for our quiz, so check back!

I'm back (it's 6 hours later, I swear, just edited this post). I've put our word document with each class' written response to compare boxplot in the "Powerpoints and Assignments" link. Check it out!

Monday HW

Today the onslaught of quizzes began...

Tonight, please complete page 90: 9, 12, 13, 17, 19

Here's a few announcements for the days to come:

Tomorrow's HW-->page 90: 15, 21, 23, 25, 27

We will have a quiz Friday on chapter 5. To prepare, we will have an after school review for this quiz as our second focused tutoring session on Wednesday after school (half day Thurs).

New students--I would like to meet Wednesday after school with each of you to cover any missed content/questions and get you up to speed. Please let me know when you're availabe so we can figure out a day we all have available.

Hope you all had/have a good Monday--back to the grind!

Weekend HW

Your only homework this weekend is to complete the chapter 3 take home quiz distributed this past Monday. For those of you already done, rest up, relax, and come back ready to get those minds working for another 5 days.

I've posted the take home quiz under our Powerpoints and Assignments in case you need another copy. You can find it titled, "Ch. 3 Take Home Quiz" (creative, huh?). If you don't have it Monday, you will earn a 0, no questions asked.

Although I am usually willing to answer any questions at any time via email, I may be less willing for this assignment (especially if you email me Sunday night). I gave you a full week to work on this so that you could look at it and use the time to get help.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Thursday HW

Please complete the following 5 problems:

Page 90: 3,5,7,11,26

*You do not have to do any problems by hand. You can use a calculator for each.*

Also, remember your chapter 3 take home quiz is due Monday! There is no other weekend homework--just come back ready to work! (The onslaught of quizzes is coming....)

Someone asked for this via email, so check it out: steps for a boxplot:

Here are the stops to draw a boxplot:

1. Use your graphing calculator to find the 5 number summary (enter your data in L1, then press Stat-->Calc-->1 Var Stats)

2. Plot Q1, Median, and Q3 with a vertical line--these create the box in our boxplot.

3. Calculate the fences (these are the cutoff points for outliers) with the following formulas: Q1 - 1.5IQR and Q3 + 1.5IQR

4. Plot any outliers (values that fall outside these fences) with a dot.

5. Draw the arms (or whiskers) of your boxplot to the highest and lowest data values within the fences. **Students often mess up this step and draw the arms to the fence values--these are not part of our data, so this is incorrect**

Wednesday HW

I hate to say it, but I just realized that I don't have your problems at my home computer, so I don't have the chapter 4 problems due tomorrow. I hope you wrote them down in class. If someone sees this and could post a comment with the problems that'd be amazing. Maybe even a stamp for you tomorrow. Or, email me (fred.carofano@gmail.com) and I'll throw the problems up.

I know you have to do 4, 21, 22, and 35,

I'm really sorry guys. Check with a friend if you don't see a comment below.

Remember, your take home quiz is due on Monday. Tomorrow you're welcome to come work cooperatively after school and I can do some similar examples (but not the quiz questions) to help out. The more the merrier.

Hasta manana. Buenos tardes.

Monday Night HW

Here's Monday's homework...enjoy! (Def checking this one...)

Chapter 4 Exercises (page 64) 3, 9, 11, 19, 31

Friday!

Hope you're all ready to enjoy your weekend and get back to our first full week of school!

Hopefully you're feeling more clear after the day's discussion of independence. Remember, this will in fact be on your chapter 3 quiz Tuesday, so it might be a good idea to look at another example this weekend; that way, if you have questions, you can come after school Monday to have them clarified.

Your homework this weekend is to read chapter 4. Remember, you can take notes if you like, and if so, can use them on a potential reading quiz. It's our first chapter, so there's probably a good chance for one :).

Also, on Monday you will have a graphing calculator quiz--5/5 if you have one on your desk, 0/5 if you don't. No excuses. If you have an extenuating circumstance you should approach me before then in private (fred.carofano@gmail.com).

Enjoy the weekend! Watch some football. And keep an eye out for interesting stats we can use in class.

Here's an example for a nice answer when writing independence: Class and survival on the Titanic are not independent. Overall, approximately 32% of passengers on the Titanic survived. However, 62.46% of people in first class survived and 41.4% of second class passengers survived, showing both had a higher rate of survival. Both third class and crew had a much lower rate than the overall (the expected) rate of survival. According the data, the higher your class, the more likely you were to survive.