MAT 142, section 1, Summer 2012
M – Th 2:00 – 3:50 PM, ICB 1102
Instructor: Kevin Boyer e-mail: Kevin.Boyer@heartland.edu
or ktboyer@ilstu.edu
Office: ICB 2402 Office hours: before class or by appointment
Phone: 268-8640 (Math Science Office – leave message)
Introduction:
Statistics is used in every walk of life these days. In order to make informed decisions, a modern person must have a working knowledge of statistics.
Exposure to basic statistical ideas and experience in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data also opens the door for a variety of future jobs and applications.
Catalog Description:
Prerequisite: Math 106 or 109, with a grade of C or higher, or equivalent.
(MATH 142 is a) statistics course that emphasizes applications of statistics to business. Topics include data organization, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and variability, probability theory, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis. A graphing calculator is required for this course (instruction will be based on a TI 83+). This course is not intended for a mathematics major or minor.
Required Materials :
Textbook: Sharpe, DeVeaux, Velleman. (2010) Business Statistics: A first
Course, Addison-Wesley.
Notebook: I recommend a 70 page notebook with pages that cleanly tear out.
Graphing Calculator: Graphing calculator with statistics functions. I will be using a TI-83 during lecture. You must have your own calculator for tests – any sharing of calculators during a test will be treated as cheating.
MyMathLabs is not required, but provides nice practice problems
Student Conduct
Students are expected to conduct themselves in a courteous and responsible manner at all times. Do not use any electronic devices other than a calculator during class. Do not talk to others while the instructor is talking to the class or while other students are participating. Do not make offensive or discriminatory comments at any time. Failure to act in a mature and responsible manner can result in penalties ranging from a warning up to automatic failure of the class in extremely severe cases.

Attendance and Participation
Attendance is essential to learning, especially when the pace is quickened for a summer class. Skipping class is a guaranteed way to fail the course.
Please do not miss class except for extreme emergencies. In order to fully understand the material, you must also participate meaningfully in class by asking questions and contributing to the solving of in-class problems. To reward faithful attendance, I will keep track of who is here on lecture days (see schedule). I will give the following rewards based on lecture day attendance:
Perfect attendance:
1 day missed:
2 days missed:
2 lowest quizzes become 20 out of 20
10 extra credit points
2 lowest quizzes become 20 out of 20 lowest quiz becomes 20 out of 20
3 or more days missed: no reward
Although I will take attendance on quiz and test days for record keeping purposes, those days do not count toward this benefit, since you would already be missing a homework grade and either a quiz or test. I reserve the right to count you as absent if you show up excessively late or if you leave before class is over without clearing it with me beforehand.
If you are absent for four or more lecture sessions (the equivalent of eight hour long lectures), I reserve the right to withdraw you from the course.
Grading and Evaluation
On the next class day after a lecture, I will collect the assignments related to that lecture. This will usually include either homework from the book based on the lecture, and/or a worksheet that I hand out on the day of the lecture. We will go over many of the assigned problems from the homework and worksheet before I collect them. You will be allowed to finish or correct any problems that you did not have finished. However, we will not necessarily go over all the problems. I reserve the right to give a 0 to people who are obviously not doing the homework before class or to people who do not attend the previous lecture.
Each of these assignments will be worth ten points. Your assignment total will be out of 100 points. There will be more than ten scheduled assignments, so you can potentially miss a few assignments and still get the full 100 points total on your homework grade. I do not accept any late assignments for any reason.
Please do not neglect your homework!

There will be ten quizzes worth twenty points each. I intend to let the entire class work together on the quizzes (no book or notes). Please note that this is a privilege, not a right, and can be revoked if necessary, especially for poor attendance. Up to two quizzes can be replaced by perfect 20 out of 20 based on your attendance. There will also be five tests worth one hundred points each. On the tests, you will be working by yourselves. Your lowest test can be replaced by the percentage you get on the final exam (as long as the percent is higher). This is intended to reward improvement.
The final exam will be given on Monday, July 30 th during regular class time. The final is comprehensive and must be taken at the given time. The final is mandatory and will not be dropped for any reason.
Overall grade point totals:
Assignments
Ten quizzes
Five exams
Final exam (comprehensive)
10 pts each
20 pts each
100 pts each
100 max
200
500
200
1000 pts
900 points guarantees an A, 800 a B, 700 a C, and 600 a D. The actual scale might be adjusted slightly, but not by much.
Make Up Policy
Due to the grade replacement policy, I do not allow late homework or make up quizzes for any reason. If you know you must miss a test day because of a wedding, funeral, court date, or military duty, talk to me at least one day in advance before you leave. If you need to stay home because of personal illness or other emergencies, you must contact me by phone/e-mail sometime on the day you are absent. For any type of absence, be ready to provide legal documentation. Remember that for most people, one test can be replaced by the final exam percentage. Please note that make-ups are a privilege, not a right. If you abuse the privilege, you will not be allowed any further make-ups, even for legitimate reasons. You have been warned.
SUPPORT SERVICES:
Heartland Library: www.hcc.cc.il.us/library
For more information about Library services please call the Library at (309) 268-8200.
Tutoring and Academic Support: http://www.heartland.edu/asc/
For more information about Testing and Tutoring please call the ASC (309) 268-8410

TENTATIVE SUMMER SCHEDULE
June 4 Intro, chapters 1 – 3.3
5
6
7
Quiz
3.4 – 3.7, Chapter 4
Quiz
July 2
3
4
5
11.3 – 11.6
Review, Test 3
No class – Independence Day chapter 10
11 Chapter 5
12 Review, Test 1
13 Chapter 7
14 Quiz
9 Quiz
10 11.7 – 11.8
11 Quiz
12 chapter 12
18 8.1 – 8.4
19 Quiz
20
21
8.5
Review, Test 2
16
17
18
19
Review, Test 4 chapter 13, ANOVA
Quiz chapter 6, chapter 14
25 9.1
– 9.4, 11.1, 11.2
26 Quiz
27 9.5 – 9.9
28 Quiz
23 Quiz
24 Review
25 Test 5
26 Final Exam Review
30
Final Exam: Monday, July 30 th , regular class time
Final Exam