Inferential Stats 8/30/2013

http://flowingdata.com/2013/08/20/where-non-english-language-is-spoken-in-the-us/

What does this graph tell you?

If you were an educator, how could you use this data?

If you owned a retail business, how could you use this data?

What mistake might a person make in interpreting the meaning of the graph?

Stats Chapter 2 Notes

PowerPoints

Stats Resource

2013 Grad Report

Week of 8/19-8/23

Statistics

Monday

Nielsen Ratings p. 15; 1-8

Tuesday

1.3 Sampling and Experiment Design
p. 21; 9-25, 28

Wednesday/Thursday

p. 23;1-2
Chapter 1 Practice Test
Review in Class

Friday

Chapter 1 Test

Pre-AP Algebra 2

Monday

Pre-Req Skills Quiz (No Homework)

Tuesday

Work on Paired Activity 1.2. For homework, finish whatever not completed in class on Activity 1.2 (Solving absolute value equations and graph and solve one variable inequalities)

Wednesday/Thursday:

Large group discussion of Activity 1.2
Solving and graphing absolute value inequalities and compound inequalities...Worksheet

Friday:

Jigsaw Activity on Functions - Day 1

Pre-AP Algebra 2 Alternative Assignment for Friday

If you had to leave early for the discipline assembly and missed the group activity, here is your assignment in place of that... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1_qk-5PZmjPbEwtaW13TEExMlU/edit?usp=sharing

***On the last part...the fractions are horrendous.  If you convert to decimals, round to 3 places.

Challenge Problem

A man walks two-thirds of the distance across a railroad bridge

 

 

from point A to point B when he sees a train approaching at the

rate of 45 mph. He does a very quick calculation and realizes that

if he runs at a certain speed, let’s call it r, he can make it to either

end of the bridge and avoid the train. What is this value of r?

Stats ch 1 Power Points

Here are slides for Chapter 1...when you click on the link it will take you to a page where you can download or view them...it will be for the whole chapter...scroll to section you need.
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/esm_larson_elemstats_2/chapter1/deluxe.html

Access to gmail Accounts

Here is the school district instructions on setting up your district based gmail account...
http://tech.fz.k12.mo.us/student-logins-for-grades-6-12.html

August 14 through August 16th Schedule

STATISTICS

Wednesday:

Introductions and Pre-Assessment

Thursday:

1.1 Overview of Statistics
p. 6;11-24,27-33,36
(All chapter 1 homework will be due on August 23rd...day we take test)

Friday:

1.2 Data Classification
p. 13;11-21 all

Pre-AP Algebra 2

Wednesday:

Introductions and Pre-Assessment
Set up school gmail account (For help click here)

Thursday:

Finish Pre-Assessment
Go over Unit I Objectives
Hand out 1.1 Activity for students to work on

Friday:

Work on 1.1 Activity in groups of 3...due Monday

Welcome Back for 2013-2014 School Year

I hope you are as excited as I am for the school year to begin.  I am always surprised by how time flies - the summer has flown by and if history holds, I will be thinking in May how quickly the school year has flown by.  If you do not know me, you will quickly learn I am a pretty enthusiastic guy about my "job" and life in general.  I hope that you will share that enthusiasm with me.  I hope to get to know each of you throughout the year, or in the case of those I have had before, get to know you better.  My ultimate goal is to help you be successful in the classroom as well as out.  You do not have to share any more than what you wish with me, but I do like to let my students in on who I am.  I believe it helps students to see their teachers as people, which I realize can be a challenge.

I had a busy summer.  The highlight was when my oldest son, Daniel, married a wonderful girl from

Daniel and Courtney

Washington, Missouri.  He is a civil engineer in Kansas City and is completing his masters degree while working full time and a newlywed.  He has always been one to lead a very full life.  His wife, Courtney, is a pharmacy major and will finish her education at the end of this year.  Our best wedding present to them was one of our three dogs - Wilson.  Courtney already had a cat.  Wilson is a "pound puppy" who my youngest son, David, named after the volleyball in the Tom Hanks movie, "Catsaway."

David with his Fly Rod

David is now a third year college student at the greatest university, by FAR, Mizzou.  He has been a journalism major, but is seriously exploring a major change to forestry.  He shares our family love for the outdoors, and does quite a lot of writing about it -

website, blog, etc.  His journalism major was a reflection of his passion for writing, but has begun to rethink whether that direction is the right one for him.  He is very blessed in that while Mizzou has such a great J-school, their forestry school is almost as well-recognized across the nation.








My wife, Laura, is a fifth grade teacher in Washington, Missouri.  In case you are wondering, we live

Laura (center)

between Washington and O'Fallon in a community called Lake Sherwood.  She drives about 30 minutes each way - I drive about 45 minutes.  Laura has taught just about every elementary grade level, and even taught in a one-room school when we lived in Alaska.  Laura and I have been married for 27 years!

I turned 50 this summer...I am OLD!  I was born in Colorado and raised in Alaska.  I met Laura at Mizzou.

 We lived in "Bush Alaska" for several years before moving first to western Colorado, and then to Missouri in 1998.  I started at North in the 1999-2000 school year.  Besides family, I deeply enjoy doing just about anything outdoors - hunting, fishing, camping, etc.  I also write a lot about the outdoors via several blogs as

David and I on a mountaintop...you could not possibly
guess where!

well as out website (family-outdoors.com).  Many my age in the teaching profession are close to retirement - due to my having taught in
several states I am a few years behind them.  I could contemplate doing so in eight years, but cannot imagine wanting to do so.

I have not said much about my passion for math, but you will experience that for yourself.  I hope it will be contagious to you, and further, if you have a negative view of the discipline coming in, I simply request that you maintain an open mind.  I believe deeply that each of you are entirely capable of at a minimum, becoming very competent thinkers.

Well, that's about it for now.  I will be handing out a beginning of the year newsletter and will cover classroom stuff more there.  Again, I look forward to a great year.