Cheryl Jaeger Balm
MATH 10 - Elementary Statistics (MPS)
- CRN
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45431
- Schedule ID
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MATH-10-MPS
- Location
- Days and Times
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
- Units
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5
Course Syllabus
Syllabus in downloadable PDF
Materials for Math 10 (MPS) - Spring 2016
- Textbook in downloadable PDF or as a website (use PDF for HW)
- Where to rent a graphing calculator
- My office hours are Monday 12:30-2:20 and Wednesday 1:30-3:15 in S-76d.
Counselor
'carrilloluisalberto@fhda.edu'
Luis Carrillo
Counselor, MPS
carrilloluisalberto@deanza.edu
408.864.5856
S 43G
Schedule Highlights
Dates are subject to change
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Week 1: April 9 to April 13
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 4/9 Intro Key terms - Article from People
- Start Ch. 1
Y Tuesday, 4/10 Data types - Read 1.1-1.5
- HW 1.12 #1, 4, 7, 8, 10
Y Wednesday, 4/11 Sampling Ch. 1 Practice 2 - Read 1.6
- HW 1.12 #13, 28
Y Thursday, 4/12 Bias - Survey Questions 101
- Spurious Correlations
- Choose groups for Project 1
HW 1.12 #12, 17 Y Friday, 4/13 Histograms - Start Ch. 2
- Begin Lab 1-2
- Read 2.1-2.4
- HW 2.13 #13, 23
Y - Reminders
- Ch. 1 HW #1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 17, 28 due + 1 practice due Monday 4/16
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Week 2: April 16 to April 20
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 4/16 Box plots Ch. 1 HW due Read 2.5, 2.7, 2.8 HW 2.13 #20 Y Tuesday, 4/17 z-scores Read 2.9 HW 2.13 #6, 9 Y Wednesday, 4/18 Percentiles Ch. 2 Practice 1 Read 1.9, 2.6 HW 1.12 #3, 16 HW 2.13 #1a-k, 5 Y Thursday, 4/19 Probability Lab 1-2 due Start Ch. 3 Begin Lab 1-1 Read 3.1 Y Friday, 4/20 Conditional probability Project 1 Check-in (Q1-4) due Ch. 3 Practice 2 Read 3.2-3.4 HW 3.11 #1, 7, 22 Y Reminders
- Ch. 1 HW #3, 16 + Ch. 2 HW #1a-k, 5, 6, 9, 13, 20, 23 + 1 practice due Monday 4/23
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Week 3: April 23 to April 27
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 4/23 Contingency tables - Ch. 1-2 HW due
- Ch. 3 Practice 1
- Read 3.5
- HW 3.11 #15a-f, 18
Y Tuesday, 4/24 Tree diagrams Ch. 3 Practice 3 - Read 3.7
- HW 3.11 #2, 3
Y Wednesday, 4/25 Review Y Thursday, 4/26 - EXAM 1: Ch. 1-3
- Ch. 3 HW due
Friday, 4/27 Discrete PDFs - Lab 1-1 due
- Start Ch. 4
- Ch. 4 Practice 1
- Read 4.1-4.3
- HW 4.15 #1, 2, 4, 5
Y Reminders
- Ch. 3 HW #1-3, 7, 15a-f, 18, 22 + 3 practices due Thursday 4/26
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Week 4: April 30 to May 4
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 4/30 Binomial distribution Ch. 4 Practice 2 - Read 4.4, 4.5
- HW 4.15 #7, 10, 13
Y Tuesday, 5/1 Lucky Dice lab Begin Lab 4-2 Y Wednesday, 5/2 Continuous PDFs - Start Ch. 5
- Ch. 5 Practice 1
Read 5.1-5.3 Y Thursday, 5/3 Exponential distribution - Project 1 due
- Ch. 5 Practice 2
Read 5.4 Y Friday, 5/4 Normal distribution - Start Ch. 6
- Ch. 6 Practice 1
- Read 6.2, 6.4, 6.5
- HW 6.8 #1-5
Y Reminders:
- Ch. 4 HW #1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13 + 4 practices (Ch. 4 & 5) due Monday 5/7
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Week 5: May 7 to May 11
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 5/7 z-scores - Ch. 4-5 HW due
- Ch. 6 Practice 2
- Read 6.3
- HW 6.8 #10, 11
Y Tuesday, 5/8 CLT - Lab 4-2 due
- Start Ch. 7
- Ch. 7 Discovery
Y Wednesday 5/9 CLT - Ch. 6 HW due
- Ch. 7 Practices 1 and 2
- Read 7.1, 7.2
- HW 7.7 #1a-f, 3, 5, 9, 12,
- 13abcghij, 15abcfgh, 16
Y Thursday, 5/10 Cookie lab Begin Lab 7-2 Y Friday, 5/11 - Ch. 7 HW due
- Review
Y Reminders
- Ch. 6 HW #1-5, 10, 11 + 2 practices due Wednesday 5/9
- Ch. 7 HW #1a-f, 3, 5, 9, 12, 13abcghij, 15abcfgh, 16 + Discovery + 2 practices due Friday 5/11
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Week 6: May 15 to May 18
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 5/14 EXAM 2: Ch. 4-7 Tuesday, 5/15 Confidence intervals - Start Ch. 8
- CI animation (open in Firefox)
- CI powerpoint
Read 8.1 Y Wednesday. 5/16 CI means, SD known Ch. 8 Practice 1 - Read 8.2
- HW 8.9 #1, 6, 7
Y Thursday, 5/17 CI means, SD unknown - Lab 7-2 due
- Ch. 8 Practice 2
- Read 8.3
- HW 8.9 #3, 5, 12, 19
Y Friday, 5/18 CI proportions Ch. 8 Practice 3 - Read 8.4
- HW 8.9 #2, 11, 20, 21
Y Reminders
- Ch. 8 HW #1-3, 5-7, 11, 12, 1 9-21 + 3 practices due Tuesday 5/22
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Week 7: May 21 to May 25
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 5/21 Hypothesis Testing - Start Ch. 9
- Choose groups for Project 2
- Ch. 9 Practice 0
- Read 9.1, 9.2, 9.4-9.10
- HW 9.16 #1
Y Tuesday, 5/22 HT 1 proportion - Ch. 8 HW due
- Ch. 9 Practice 3
- Read 9.11
- HW 9.16 #10, 13, 14
Y Wednesday, 5/23 HT 1 mean Ch. 9 Practice 1 HW 9.16 #4, 5, 7-9, 15 Y Thursday, 5/24 Type I & II errors - Ch. 9 Practice 2
- Type II errors
- Read 9.3
- HW 9.16 #2
Y Friday, 5/25 Misuse of p-values - Project 2 proposal due
- Explaining p-values is hard
- P-value fallacy
- Misuse of p-values
Y Reminders
- Ch. 9 HW #1, 2, 4, 5, 7-10, 13-15 + 4 practices due Tuesday 5/29
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Week 8: May 28 to June 1
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 5/28 NO CLASS Tuesday, 5/29 Ch. 9 HW due Review Y Wednesday, 5/30 EXAM 3: Ch. 8-9 Thursday, 5/31 HT for 2 groups Start Ch. 10 Read 10.1, 10.6 HW 10.9 #1-10 Y Friday, 6/1 Observational and designed studies Ch. 10 Practice 0 Y -
Week 9: June 4 to June 8
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 6/4 HT 2 independent means Ch. 10 Practice 1 - Read 10.2
- HW 10.9 #16, 23, 28
Y Tuesday, 6/5 HT 2 independent proportions - Project 2 Data check due
- Ch. 10 Practice 2
- Read 10.4
- HW 10.9 #15, 18, 31
Y Wednesday, 6/6 HT paired means - Read 10.5
- HW 10.9 #14, 21, 25
Y Thursday, 6/6 Goodness of Fit - Start Ch. 11
- Ch. 11 Practice 1
- Read 11.1-11.4
- HW 11.11 #2, 3, 7
Y Friday, 6/8 M&M Lab - Ch. 10 HW due
- Begin Lab 11-1
Y Reminders
- Ch. 10 HW #1-10, 14-16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31 + 3 practices due Friday 6/8
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Week 10: June 11 to June 15
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 6/11 Test of Independence Ch. 11 Practice 2 - Read 11.5
- HW 11.11 #9, 11, 13, 14
Y Tuesday, 6/12 Snack lab Project 2 due Begin Lab 11-2 Y Wednesday, 6/13 Linear Regression - Ch. 11 HW due
- Start Ch. 12
- Start Ch. 12 Practice 2
- Read 12.1-12.5
- HW 12.13 #1
Y Thursday, 6/14 Correlation coefficient
Ch. 12 Practice 1 & 2 - Read 12.6-12.8
- HW 12.13 #3, 5, 13, 14
Y Friday, 6/15 Residuals Read 12.9 Y Reminders
- Ch. 11 HW #2, 3 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 + 2 practices due Wednesday 6/13
- For all Ch. 12 HW problems: Please sketch a picture of your scatterplot from the calculator. Also, sketch the regression line on your scatterplot as we have done in class. Do it on the calculator first, and then sketch the scatterplot and regression line on your HW paper. Do not use two points, as in the instructions for the HW.
- Ch. 12 HW #1, 3, 5, 13, 14 + 2 practices due Monday
For all Ch. 12 HW problems: Please sketch a picture of your scatterplot from the calculator. Also, sketch the regression line on your scatterplot as we have done in class. Do it on the calculator first, and then sketch the scatterplot and regression line on your HW paper. Do not use two points, as in the instructions for the HW.
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Week 11: June 18 to June 22
Date Topic(s) In class-Work Homework Finalized Monday, 6/18 Ch. 12 HW due Review Y Tuesday, 6/19 EXAM 4: Ch. 10-12 Wednesday, 6/20 ANOVA Labs 11-1 and 11-2 due Y Thursday, 6/21 Class cancelled Y Friday, 6/22 Class cancelled Y -
Final Exam
IconExam Information
The Final Exam will be Thursday, June 10 from 9:15 - 11:15 a.m.