Moneyball Movie

Just saw the new movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt.  This film will appeal to baseball fans as well as moviegoers who just like a good story.  The trailer is here:

The film is rated PG-13 and opened Friday night.

Students looking for a way to earn some points can complete the following:

1. Bring in an initialed ticket stub from the film
2. Read the Wikipedia Entry on Moneyball
3. Calculate the probability of a team with a .636 winning "percentage" having a 20 game winning streak (assume that the probability of winning each game is .636...i.e., that each game can be considered an independent event which it technically is not).  Show the calculations that you use.
4. Read the article A Game of Numbers and explain three of the statistics described.

Successful completion of the 4 steps above will earn the student a perfect score equal to a 25 point quiz grade in Statistics OR a perfect score equal to two homework grades in Pre-Calculus or Algebra.  For Pre-Calculus or Algebra, these points cam be used to replace missing or low grades or added in as a separate grades at student's choice.  For students in two of my classes, the points can be used in one class only.

The real guy behind the stats is guy named Paul Depodesta.  The image below is him:

Image by O'Reilly Conferences via Flickr

week of 9/19/2010

Pre-Calc:

Monday: Grade p. 264, questions p. 278, notes 2.3 continued, continue to work on p. 278 1-20 all, 21-60 by 3's, 74, 75, 90
Tuesday:  Questions p. 278, Graphing Calc instruction and problems, p. 281 84-87, 92
Wednesday: Grade p. 278, Notes 2.4, p. 290 3-42 by 3's, 60, 61, 64
Thursday: same as Wednesday
Friday: Questions p. 290, finish notes 2.4, work on assignment from p. 290 above.

Stats:

Monday: P. 111:1-7

Tuesday: Grade p. 100 and review for Test (Ch 2)

Wednesday: Collect p. 111 and Ch 2 Test

Thursday: Same as Wed.

Friday: Go over tests and p. 113;1-8 all

Algebra:

Monday: Work on p.528;12-27x3s [due at end of hour]...start p. 841;1-24 all [due at end of period Tuesday]

Tuesday: Work on p. 841...Due at end of hour...start Skills Practice 10.1...[Due at end of hour on Thursday]

Thursday: Finish Skills Practice 10.1...Start Practice 10.1 [due at end of period Friday]

Friday...Finish Skills Practice and turn in by end of period 

September 14th, 2011

Pre-Calculus:
p. 264 1-8 all, 9-39 by 3's, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 54, 60, 68, 80

Statistics:
Discussed Distributions using income distributions as example
Answered ?'s on 2.4
Worked on 2.4
Worked on Project Proposals...Due Friday

September 7, 2011

Pre-Calculus:

p. 229;2, 7, 12-27 by 3's, 40 and 46 [due at period's end Thursday]
p. 242;1,2-26,29-31 [due at start class Friday]


Help session after school tomorrow and before school Friday [starts at 6:45 in Lakey's room]


Stats:
Correlation of Attendance and Wins at 2010 NFL Games [3rd period]
p. 56;1-14,15-27x3s,29 and 30 ec


Algebra:
Work on Objectives 2 and 3 for Unit 8 Review

September 6, 2011

Pre-Calculus:
Ended up essentially answering questions all hour long.

Statistics:
3rd Period began 2.2 work...pp. 56-59;1-12,15-27x3s, 29-30ec
4th Period...Correlation between NFL Attendance and Wins

Algebra:
Practice 11.4 due tomorrow
Also began reviewing for Unit 8 Test...this test will be on Friday...took notes (will be graded) and should have completed questions 1-9 on review for Objective 1 [simplifying radicals]

survey link

stat link

September 1, 2011

Pre-Calculus...2nd Period
We covered section 1.7 on operations with functions as well as composition of functions
Assigned...206-208;6-38 even, 41,42,47-58,63-66,74[writing],81[critical thinking]

Statistics:
Penny Pyramid Problem
Excel Introduction...no homework

Algebra:
Reviewed Square Root Equations and Penny Pyramid
WS 8.4 Due Tomorrow