Nowell/AQR
1st Six Weeks Calendar
August 22 – September 30, 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
22
Rules and
expectations
SAT practice exam
for homework
23
Estimating Large
Numbers:crowds
Meter sticks
1.A sheet one
24
SAT practice exam
due
Tennis
ball
estimate
1.A.sheet two
25
creating
large
number patterns
Not enough numbers
1.A sheet three
26
Fermi Questions
quiz/workday
29
Fermi questions/ in
class presentations
30
Using
ratios/proportions
Ratios in the
media 1-4
Sheet 1
6
Changing
tires/proportions
31
Workday/Ratios in
the
media
extenstions
Sheet 2
Sept 1
Presentations/ Ratios
in the media
Sheet 3
2
Presentations/
ratios in the media
7
Changing
tires/percent error
8
Test review
9
Test 1-1
12
Indices w/
weighted sums and
averages
Final grade avg
13
Sums/averages
cont.
Slugging avg.
14
Predictions
sums/averages
Fan cost index
15
Predictions cont.
16
Simpson’s
paradox
19
Validating ID #’s
UPC/ matrix
multiplication
#12
20
Apply formulas/
matrix
multiplication #13
21
Extentions
presentations
26
Test corrections
Expectation
feedback
27
Algebra review
No calculator
28
Grade/
correct
algebra review
5
Labor Day
w
and
22
Presentations/
review
29
Test review
test
23
Test 1-2
30
Six weeks test
2nd Six Weeks Calendar
October 3 – November 4, 2011
Monday
Oct 3
Solving Venn
Diagrams
Tuesday
4
Using
diagrams
Venn
Sheet 1
10
Comp Day
17
Stocks and Risk
11
Probability
games
in
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5
Tree diagrams
Percentages
of
percentages
Sheet 2
6
Using area models
To
determine
probability
7
Solving a maze in
fewer moves
Finish sheet 3
Successes vs. trials
12
Continue
game %
with
Sheet 3
13
Driving and risk
14
Build your game
project.
(will become test 22)
Cards
Dice
Sheet 5
Sheet 5
Sheet 6
18
Choosing classes
19
Test review
20
Test 2-1
(Determining
probabilities)
21
Test make-up/work
day/game testing
27
Expected Allowance
Photo of master
schedule in Mrs.
Scott’s office
Sheet 7
24
Game
presentations
(test 2-2)
31
Research SABR
Compare data
collection with
other sports or
jobs.
Sheet 8
25
Binomial
Probability
and
Expected Values
Pascal’s
triangle
poster
Sheet 9
Nov. 1
Research
NASDAQ
Compare
data
collection
with
other markets or
jobs.
26
Finish
Tuesday
Copy of book:
Moneyball
Graph paper
28
Success vs. failure
%
Finish
from
Thursday
Sheet 9
2
Test review
Sheet 10
3
Test 2-3
(six-weeks test)
Sheet 10
4
Test make-up/work
day
from
3rd Six Weeks Calendar
November 7 – December 17, 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7
Ethics and law in
statistics
Sheet 2
8
Margin of error
vs. % error
Sheet 3
9
Check % error
problems, compare
to real studies/ find
possible problems
10
Sampling
Design
and Methods
Sheet 4
11
Data comparison
quiz (stats)
14
Graphical displays
Histogram, pie,
box+wiskers,
color?
Sheet 5
15
Analyzing
graphics/ using a
computer to create
graphics
Sheet 6
16
Test review
17
Test
3-1
collection)
18
Test
make-up/
work day
21
Project rough draft
due. Compare
data, graphs, pilot
study information.
22
23
24
25
(data
½ Day
No school
No school
No school
Early
Projects
Due +6 points
Presentations in
class
29
Finish Project
presentations in
class
Using Tech
sheet 7
30
Technology in stats
Using MS Excel to
display statistical
data
Library PC lab
Dec 1
Survey Design
Improving
design
Sheet 8
2
Statistical
Bias
and Variability
Sheet 9
5
Finish sheet 9
6
Research
and polls
Sheet 10
7
Finish sheet 10
Finalize
all
homework
8
Project upgrades (do
over) due
Test review
9
6-weeks test
13
Test make-up/
work day
14
Test Review
15
Test review
16
17
Finals
½ Day
Finals
½ Day
28
Project
presentations in
class
studies
the
4th Six Weeks Calendar
January 3 – February 17, 2012
Monday
2
Work Day
Tuesday
3
Introductin
to
recursive models.
US Income Tax
System
Wednesday
4
Income
brackets
Hw:build
bracket table
9
Causation vs.
correlation
Relationships in
Data
10
Research
misleading reports
Sheet 1 7-14
Sheet 1 1-6
16
Work Day
23
Test review
17
Growth models
Secrets,
infections,
populations
Sheet 3 1-10
24
Test 4-1
Vocabulary check
30
Rates of change in
exponential models
Connection to
logistic funtions
31
Correct
misconnceptions
Sheet 6 1-8
6
Ferris wheels vs.
sine waves
Modeling the
Singapore Flyer
Sheet 6 9-10
7
Graphing periodic
functions
13
Linear,
exponential,
geometric, periodic
functions
tax
tax
11
Presentations
Present misleading
reports
(and
corrections)
in
class
18
Population growth
with limiters (war,
overcrowding)
Play the game
Genisis
Sheet 3 11-14
25
Newton’s law of
cooling
stopwatch
Hot water
thermmmeter
Sheet 5 1-15
Feb 1
Research/
preparation from
activities 5/6
8
Trig review
Thursday
Friday
5
Graphing
tax
brackets/ multi-layer
data representation
graph tax tables
Hw: 1040EZ
6
1040EZ tax form.
Graphing
‘real’
tax brackets
12
Linear
Functions
review
Recursion
and
Linear Functions
13
Exponential
function review
Recursion
and
Exponential
Functions
Sheet 2 7-10
20
Finish
presentations
Sheet 2 1-6
19
Presentations
Comparing
models (in class)
Sheet 4
26
Correct
misconnceptions
27
Introduce
log
functions
with
base 10, binary
and clock systems
Sheet 5 16-21
2
Presentations
Find other systems
3
Finish
presentations
9
Research project
data due
10
Research project
Present in class
Present in class
Sheet 7
14
Test review
Vocabulary check
Finish sheet 7
15
Test 4-2
16
Corrections/makeup
17
Introduce Cyclical
Functions
Weather, ice ages,
stock market,
depressions
5th Six Weeks Calendar
February 20 – April 13, 2012
Monday
20
Comp Day
27
Graphing without a
calculator
x/y tables
5
Science
applications of
cyclical functions
Tuesday
Wednesday
21
Linear Regression
models, calculator
uses vs. graphing
on paper
22
Growth
models/regression
lines that change
Sheet 1
Sheet 2
28
Cyclical
Functions
Length
of
Daylight
WORLD MAP
Sheet 4 AB
6
Test review?
29
Hunting/fishing times
TIDE CHARTS
Thursday
23
50 minute time limit
work session
Friday
24
Quiz 5-1
Graphing
functions
Questions answered
1
Ferris
revisited
Wheel
2
Sheet 5 extension
question done as a
class
Sheet 4 CD
Sheet 5 1-18
7
TAKS ELA
8
Test 5-1
9
Test
Makeup/Corrections
Finish sheet 7
Sheet 6 1-8
Finish sheet 6
Sheet 7 HW
19
Polynomial
simplification
notes
20
Polynomial
simplification
Factoring
26
Solving
polynomials with
zeros
First 6 problems
27
Solving
polynomials
by
graphing
March 12-16 Spring Break
21
22
Finding patterns in Binomial Th.
polynomials
Homework
corrections
28
Solving polynomials
with shortcuts
Rational zeros test
29
Synthetic division
23
Quiz 5-2
Polynomials
Copy notes
30
Synthetic division
w/imaginary #’s
p. 401 1-12
p.369-372 1-10
Apr 2
Test Review
3
Test 5-2
Polynomials
4
Quadratic
Formula
with imaginary #’s
5
Finish HW in class
6
No School
p. 407 1-20
9
Bad Weather
10
Test review
11
Test 5-2
Functions/Polynomials
12
Test Make-up/
corrections
13
Matrix equations
Review/Introduce
6th Six Weeks Calendar
April 16 – May 31, 2012
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
16
17
18
19
20
23
24
TAKS Math 10
25
TAKS Math 11
26
TAKS Sci 10-11
27
TAKS SS 10-11
30
May 1
2
3
4
7
8
9
10
11
14
15
16
17
18
21
Bad Weather
22
23
24
25
28
29
30
31
June 1
Finals
½ Day
Finals
½ Day
Staff Day
Memorial Day