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Welcome to Intro Stats
Teacher: Ms. Patricia Horvath
Room: 55
School Year: 2011-2012
(Stats Textbooks)
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Supplies
Calculator
TI-83 Plus, TI-84, TI-84 Silver Addition
NOT TI-85 or 86. These are not
designed for Statistics work.
NOT TI-89--too advanced & uses
different Commands
BUY: Extra AAA batteries
Calculator Cost: About $85-$100
Sources: Office Depot, Office Max,
Ebay.com, Amazon.com
Save and give to me the back sheet
(with the POINTS on it). I can use
them to buy TI
supplies for the
Introduction to Statistics
classroom
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Supplies Continued
Protractor
Should be small, if possible.
Uses:
Ruler--Small Compact and always
accessible
Angle Measure Guide--essential
for pie charts (beginning of our course)
Pencil
Several #2 pencils or better yet, a
good (0.7 lead) mechanical pencil.
You’ll be doing lots of writing. And
while you are there, get lead for the
pencils.
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Supplies Continued
Compass
We're drawing pie charts (1st part of the
course)
as well as bar charts and you MUST
be accurate. Graphs count for a lot
in Intro Stats.
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Supplies Continued
Graph Paper
Only graph paper is
acceptable for your work on paper.
Get a thick pad of it. You will need it.
You will have xeroxed problems,
for Classwork & Homework.
Anytime you need an extra piece of
paper it MUST be graph paper.
No graph paper, no pencil, no credit.
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Necessary Supplies Continued
Pockets in your regular binder devoted to Statistics
with 4 separate labeled tabs:
1. Class Notes
2. Classwork
3. Homework
4. Graph Paper
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OPTIONAL Supplies
Other Items which are OPTIONAL but helpful:
1. A personal 3-hole punch used for
archiving classwork and homework in your
binder
2. A small personal stapler for attaching
homework to accompanying graphs
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What are your supplies worth?
20 Points for all your supplies
(Your first grade of the semester)
1. TI 83+/84 Calculator
10 points
2. Graph Paper
2 points
3. Protractor
2 points
4. Compass
2 points
5. (Mechanical) Pencil & Lead
2 points
6. Tabs/Pockets in your Binder
2 points
Total
20 points
Check date: Thursday, Sept 8 in Introduction
class. to Statistics
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End of 1st Part of Supplies for
Intro Stats
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Begin 2nd Part of Organizing
for Intro Stats
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Who Should Take Intro Stats?
• You actually like math
• Algebra/Analysis is not your thing, but applied
math might be.
• The real world as it applies to math is something
worth learning about
• You like graphing and thinking about numbers
in context
• You want those A-G credits on your transcript
for college
• You don’t mind doing math homework
• You don’t mind taking notes everyday
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Who Should NOT Take Intro Stats?
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You want math, but you don’t want to work
You want to ‘goof off’
You don’t want to do homework
You hate graphing
You want an easy Senior/Junior year
You think this is a push-over class
You like to talk and socialize in class
You hate taking notes
For any of these reasons, DROP this course
immediately. You will NOT be happy here. Take
something else.
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Textbook
• Statistics Through Applications
– It is reference material
– It should be left at home
– Materials necessary for classwork and
homework will be presented in class that
cover topics in the book, but your text will not
be necessary.
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Getting Started
Your first assignment is to prove
you're prepared. Get your supplies now.
I'll be checking that you're prepared person to
person
On Wednesday.
Get started NOW with your purchases.
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What are your supplies worth?
20 Classwork Points for all your supplies
(Your first grade of the semester)
1. TI 83+/84 Calculator
10 points
2. Graph Paper
2 points
3. Protractor
2 points
4. Compass
2 points
5. (Mechanical) Pencil & Lead
2 points
6. Tabs/Pockets in your Binder
2 points
Total
20 points
Check date: Thursday Sept 8. Start
shopping
now.
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Note—TA Search
Ms. Horvath is looking for a TA.
If you know any of my former students or other students
who are strong in mathematics and would like to become
a TA,
tell her/him to come by to talk about the possibility of
becoming a TA for me.
Thanks.
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Begin 3rd Part of Organizing
for Intro Stats
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The Course—Intro Stats
• Not as challenging as college-level statistics, but
covers some of the same topics.
• Providing a good foundation for all later work in
college-level statistics
• Taking notes and keeping up with vocabulary
every day
• Understanding concepts. Apply them
immediately & statistically through classwork &
homework
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The Course—Intro Stats—Semester 1
• Construct and interpret graphs
– Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Dotplot, Stemplot, Boxplot,
Histogram, Scatterplot
• Summarize single & bivariate data
– Std Deviation, Normal Distribution,
Correlation, Regression
• Understand surveys & experimental data
– Random Sampling
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The Course—Intro Stats—Semester 2
• Probability & Probability theory
Simple, Compound, Independence, Exclusivity, Applied
Probability
• Binomial Distribution—Yes or No Questions
• Two Way Tables & Conditional Probability
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The Green Sheets—the Syllabus
10 Classwork Points
• You are about to receive the green sheets or
syllabus for this class. The green sheets tell
most everything you need to know about this
course.
• The 3rd page of the Green Sheets must be
signed by you and your parent and returned to
my homework box.
• This is worth 10 classwork points. The Green
Sheet return is due on the day of the supply
check, Thursday September 8 to the HW box.
• Mark your calendars/Husky Planners.
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The Rules
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The Rules
• Be respectful of teacher and fellow students
• No foul language of any kind—watch out for
words that are on my ‘do not say’ list. I’ll tell you;
don’t use them again.
• Be safe; be on time
• Be in your seat when the tardy bell rings
• Don’t talk out of turn
• Raise you hand to speak
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More Rules
• No personal grooming; grooming belongs in the
bathroom not in a classroom
• No gum. Get rid of it before I get upset.
• No electronic equipment of any kind, including
cell phones & ipods, except for your calculator. I
see you touch a phone in class, you will hand it
over to me.
• No name calling physical contact or making fun
of anyone in class
• No bathroom breaks; you have 6 min between
classes for that
• Obey all normal rules outlined in the WHS
Student Handbook
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Tardy Policy
• On the 3rd tardy to class during a
semester, I will give warning
• On the 4th tardy to class, I will deduct 2
points from your next test score
• For all tardies after the 4th, I will continue
to deduct 2 points from your next test
score. The option to send you to the SRC
after the 3rd tardy also exists.
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End of Introduction
• Some things to remember:
Get your supplies
Get the green sheets signed
• Have everything for me on Thursday Sept 8
• QED
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