Week 3

Monday

Bell Ringer

Gender Gap research question

Objectives

  • Apply graphs and measures of center and spread to a real set of data

Agenda

  • Bell Ringer
  • Research question - Is there a wage gap between races in the US. Find data/graphs on the Internet to back up your claim. (or gender)

    Choose two races, see if there is a gap between the amount the two races earn in the US. See if the gap is getting bigger or smaller. Back up your findings with data- graphs or stats.

    Summarize your findings.

  • Sharing knowlege
    • Stem and leaf plots
      • What are they and how do you make them
      • What is the main use for them
    • Histograms
      • What are they and how do you make them
      • What is the main use for them
    • Describing a distribution
      • Shape - symmetry or skewness
      • Gaps, outliers, peaks
    • Measuring center of a distribution
      • Mean and median
        • How do you find them
        • When do you use each
    • Measuring spread of a distribution
        • Standard deviation, variance
        • IQR
          • How do you calculate the measures
          • When do you use each measure
    • Numerical Summaries
      • 5 number summary
      • Mean and standard deviation
        • When do you use each
  • Linear transformations
    • Problems in class - 1.66, 1.78, 1.84, 1.92 - Heights of class in cm

Assignments:

Possible sources of data:

Gender gap statistics - pg. 12

Gender gap graph - pg. 18

Earnings data

Tuesday

Bell Ringer

Video over normal calculations

Objectives

  • Properties of the normal curve
  • Normal calculations

Agenda

  • Bell Ringer
  • Read section 1.3
  • Work on exercises in class
  • Normal quantile plot
  • Closure

Assignments:

 

Wednesday

Bell Ringer

Normal Calculator

Objectives

  • Properties of the normal curve
  • Normal calculations
  • Linear transformations

Agenda

  • Bell Ringer
  • Finish exercises
  • Closure

Assignments:

  1. 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 120, 122, 126, 128, 140, 148

 

Thursday

Bell Ringer

Normal calculations quiz

Objectives

    • Review chapter 1 objectives

Agenda

    1. Bell Ringer
    2. Chapter 1 review
    3. Closure
    • Review for chapter 1 exam

Friday

Bell Ringer

Review for chapter 1 exam

Objectives

  • Evaluate you skills on chapter 1 topics

Agenda

Assignments:

  • Read section 2.1 of chapter 2

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