Week 5

Monday

Bell Ringer

    • Find a correlation coefficient and a least squares regression line.
    • Interpret r^2
    • problem 2.62

Objectives

Agenda

      1. Bell ringer
      2. Population growth webquest
        1. We are going to research world population growth as an application of exponential growth. Today I want you to individually familiarize yourself with population trends around the world. I have several links in the webquest but you can use other sites for your information as well.
      3. Closure

Assignments:

 

Tuesday

Bell Ringer

  • Finish research

Objectives

    • Exponential growth vs linear growth

Agenda

Assignments:

 

Wednesday

Bell Ringer

World population interactive map

World population - excel

Population trends

Objectives

Exponential growth vs linear growth

Agenda

Bell Ringer

Food Shortage?


Fossil Fuel Shortage?

Two places that are good starting points in the arguement that there is a shortage of oil are below. 

The Coming Global Energy Crisis

NPG Academia Series: Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis by Dr. Albert Bartlett

Two places to that argue there is no shortage of oil are at the following sites.

An article in Forbes magazine about how conservation is driven by increased economic efficiency.

The M.I.T. Technology Review magazine has an article Getting Over Oil


Water Shortage?

safe water

data on water

 

 

Assignments:

 

Thursday

 

Bell Ringer

Share Powerpoint Projects

Objectives

Relations in categorical data

Two and three way tables

Segmented bar graphs

Marginal Distributions

Simpson's Paradox

Agenda

    Bell Ringer

    Section 2.5 reading

    Problem 2.111 - 2.113 in class

    Do 2.1114-2.1116

    Closure

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Friday

Bell Ringer

Problem 2.111 - 2.113 in class

Objectives

Two way and three way tables

Stacked bar graphs

Agenda

Bell Ringer

2.5 exercises

Closure

Assignments:

 

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