Stat Tests

Well...........

Bad teaching?

Bad learning?

Some combination of the two?

Solution:

Decide upon receipts of your "test" if you will keep that grade or try again. We will go over them and those who wish to try again can. Then this will be a practice test. If you try again, you keep your second grade. You can decide after we go over them what you want to do.

Are you frustrated? So am I!!!

There were good grades...80's, 90's, and 100's. Good job to those folks!!!

Mann

Week of 11/9/09

Week of 11/9/09

Ø Statistics
Monday pp. 265-268;1-16,19,20,26,29,30
Tuesday pp. 275;1-12
Wednesday Chapter 5 Test
Fathom Introduction
Project Workday


Ø Pre-Calculus
Monday pp. 364-367;3-39x3’s, 41-44,53,54
Tuesday pp. 377; 3-42x3s, 43-48, 51-78x3s,81,82
Wednesday pp. 387;3-78x3’s, 83,84
Thursday Quiz 3.1-3.3
Friday p. 397; 3-51x3s, 57-66

Ø Algebra 2
Monday Identity and Inverse Matrices (WS’s 4.7)
Tuesday Using Matrices to Solve Systems of Equations (WS’s 4.8)
Wednesday Day 2 on Using Matrices to Solve Systems of Equations pp. 206,207;12-34even, and 35-51
Thursday Chapter 5 Rvw Day 1 pp. 209-214;1-7,9,11-22, 27-48
Friday Chapter 5 Review Day 2 Practice Test p. 215;1-16,19,20
(Test Monday)

Pre-Calculus...Week of 10/26/2009

Sections 2.5 and 2.6

We will have a work day on Thursday and then review Friday and Monday for a test Tuesday.

Statistics Homework for Week of 10/26/2009

5.1 pp. 224-228; 5-8,17-22,27,28,33,34,39,40,42,48-58 even
5.2 pp. 232-235; 1-8,13,14,21-24
5.3 pp. 242-244; 4-24x4's,32,34,39,40,48
Case Study p. 245;1-5 all

Thursday will be a workday for working on section 5.3 HW and project work.

Friday we will have a quiz over sections 1 thru 3 in Ch 5 and work on the case study.

Irrational Taxation?

Nope...not going where you think! I have a passing interest in politics, but this is more about psychology and knowledge of mathematics. I enjoy the looks at life from Freakonmics, named after a book by the same name. They look through the lense of economics at various aspects of life. There is much in the way of math in these observations, perhaps none more so than this idea on taxation.

A quick 2 or 3 sentence synopsis of this article will earn you 5 bonus points. The article can be found here. I will not mention this in class and you have until Monday of next week (11/2) to turn it in.

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Project Ideas

Follow the link below to see all (and more) of the project ideas we discussed in class. These might be ones you can actually do...or perhaps spark an idea. You have some basis for analyzing the data, but as I mentioned in class, we will continue to add to the repertoire of tools you have at your disposal.

Project Ideas

Today's Wrap-Up 10/20/09

• Algebra II...Test tomorrow. Nothing tricky. You have had ample time to prepare. Go in and do your best and don't let nerves get the best of you. Really no memorization necessary for this one. Make sure you check answers on systems of equations. You should know on each of these if you got them right or not because you can check your work by substituting back in. On linear programming questions, make sure you show work. There will be partial credit awarded. Don't leave anything blank.
• Pre-Calculus...Test Tomorrow...Focus on manipulation of complex numbers, graphing quadratics, and graphing other polynomials using the leading term tests, finding x and y intercepts, using symmetry, etc. Obviously know the basic formulas and equations like the quadratic formula and the equation for finding the axis of symmetry for a parabola in standard form (x = -b/2a). Show all your work and check work if you have time.
• Statistics...Took Ch 4 Test...Of tests completed, grades look great! Some silly mistakes...will go over tomorrow. Next on the agenda is some discussion tomorrow of projects. Be thinking of areas you would have some interest in doing statistical analysis...Ideas might include sports, occupations, etc. Will get into specifics tomorrow.
  

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