The Week Upcoming in Stats and Pre-Calculus

First, good luck to all the sports teams competing this weekend. My son will be at McNair Park running for Washington HS CC Team so I will be there for that.

The turnout was great for Thursday's review session and obviously it is my hope it will be of help to those who attended!

• In Pre-Calculus, as I am certain you are well aware, we will have a test on Monday. We have prepared well, in my opinion, and if you study some over the weekend, I believe you will do fine. Focus on the items emphasized in class during the review on Friday. The only items that come to mind for memorization, are the rate of change formula (really just like the slope formula), and the transformation rules and the order in which they must be performed. As always, you will have access to notes the final few minutes of the test, but you will not have enough time to do a lot in this time. While this will be the last first quarter test, I will get one quiz on the agenda prior to quarter's end. Remember there is a review session on Monday morning in Room 111 with Ms. L. Also, the answers to all the Chapter Review problems are in the back of the book.

• In statistics class, we will be testing sometime next week, tentatively on Thursday. This chapter has only three sections, the first we covered today. We will likely do a Case Study from Chapter 4, but we may do so after the test. After the Chapter 4 Test, we will begin to focus on getting our first project rolling.
  

• As we have a total of 11 chapters to cover, and we will have covered four of them a week prior to the end of first quarter, we will have some time to start applying what we have learned through projects. It is my feeling that this is where the material starts to become meaningful as it is applied in the projects.

What does this photo have to do with probability?

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