Our last study session was on Thursday 4/29/2010. Access materials at the following link if you missed it. http://www.box.net/shared/4qifei5un4
The test is Tuesday....get last minute help from your teacher after school on Monday. If that is not enough, come to evening tutorials from 5:30 to 7:30 in room 109 for additional assistance.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
AP Statistics T-shirts
Please see Mrs. Malpass in room 332 if you were in the Fall class and would like to order a t-shirt. Orders will be taken through Monday 4/26/2010. Cost of the shirt is $8.
Study Sessions
We have held several study sessions for Statistics at TWHS. Please use the following links to access the handouts.
Exploring Data Study Session - click here
Experimental Design Study Session - click here
AP Prep Conference at Conroe High School (3 handouts) - click here for folder
Probability Study Session - click here
The inference study session held on 4/22/2010 had 3 free response handouts. If you are interested in obtaining these, please go by Mrs. Frazee's room 336 to pick up.
We will have one more study session on 4/29/2010. This will be a comprehensive review of bits and pieces of everything. Pizza will be served at the end. Bring your own drink and $2 for pizza. Hope to see you there.
Exploring Data Study Session - click here
Experimental Design Study Session - click here
AP Prep Conference at Conroe High School (3 handouts) - click here for folder
Probability Study Session - click here
The inference study session held on 4/22/2010 had 3 free response handouts. If you are interested in obtaining these, please go by Mrs. Frazee's room 336 to pick up.
We will have one more study session on 4/29/2010. This will be a comprehensive review of bits and pieces of everything. Pizza will be served at the end. Bring your own drink and $2 for pizza. Hope to see you there.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Ch 23-25 Review Materials
The answers to the review that you received in class today are available at http://www.box.net/shared/hypx2gzklr.
Embedded below is an additional review for tomorrow's test. The answers are included. If you have trouble viewing the slide show, you may download the powerpoint here: http://www.box.net/shared/f9d1bhhnpt
Embedded below is an additional review for tomorrow's test. The answers are included. If you have trouble viewing the slide show, you may download the powerpoint here: http://www.box.net/shared/f9d1bhhnpt
Monday, April 5, 2010
Coming Soon AP Exam Review Sessions
Review Sessions start soon! We will be offering them according to the following schedule:
4/13/2010 - Exploring Data 2:30 to 3:30, Repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 324 - Sign up Here
4/15/2010 - Experimental Design 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 332 - Sign up Here
4/17/2010 - AP Prep Conference 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM at Conroe High School - register here
4/20/2010 - Probability 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 324 - Sign up Here
4/22/2010 - Inference 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 336 - Sign up Here
4/29/2010 - Pizza Review - Big Wrap Up! 2:45 - 3:45, Pizza served, 4:45 to 5:45, Pizza served again. Bring your own drink and $2 for the pizza. Room to be announced. - Sign up Here
4/13/2010 - Exploring Data 2:30 to 3:30, Repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 324 - Sign up Here
4/15/2010 - Experimental Design 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 332 - Sign up Here
4/17/2010 - AP Prep Conference 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM at Conroe High School - register here
4/20/2010 - Probability 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 324 - Sign up Here
4/22/2010 - Inference 2:30 to 3:30, repeated from 5:00 to 6:00 Room 336 - Sign up Here
4/29/2010 - Pizza Review - Big Wrap Up! 2:45 - 3:45, Pizza served, 4:45 to 5:45, Pizza served again. Bring your own drink and $2 for the pizza. Room to be announced. - Sign up Here
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Holiday Reading
Who would have known that reading a book by one of my favorite authors would provide an example of sampling, expected value, and confidence intervals in the first few pages. It was a great read. The main character is a computer whiz and an artist, who makes his living as a professional criminal. I thought that I had read all of Sandford's books, but must have missed this one.
Excerpts that reference the AP Statistics content are below.
It works like this: the casino advertises (and reports to the tax authorities) a given return on the slot machines. If that return is even a little lower than the rate reported, the income increases sharply. That is, if you report that your machines will return 95 percent to the players, but you really only return 94 percent, and a million bucks a night goes through the slots, you're skimming $10,000 a night. In a few months, that adds up to real money.
Exactly what we did was, we dropped dollars - and quarters and nickels - into slot machines and counted the return, and then ran the results through a statistics package. We wanted 98 percent confidence that we were less than half of a percent off the true return. We therefore needed to take a large random sample of machines and had to run enough coins through each machine that we'd get a statistically accurate return on each.
I'd chosen the target machines the first night, using a random numbers program in the laptop I carried. We'd been at it ever since, dropping the dollars, quarters, and nickels, doing the numbers at night....
Reference: Sandford, John 2003. The Hanged Man's Cross. New York, NY: G. P. Puntman's Sons.
Excerpts that reference the AP Statistics content are below.
It works like this: the casino advertises (and reports to the tax authorities) a given return on the slot machines. If that return is even a little lower than the rate reported, the income increases sharply. That is, if you report that your machines will return 95 percent to the players, but you really only return 94 percent, and a million bucks a night goes through the slots, you're skimming $10,000 a night. In a few months, that adds up to real money.
Exactly what we did was, we dropped dollars - and quarters and nickels - into slot machines and counted the return, and then ran the results through a statistics package. We wanted 98 percent confidence that we were less than half of a percent off the true return. We therefore needed to take a large random sample of machines and had to run enough coins through each machine that we'd get a statistically accurate return on each.
I'd chosen the target machines the first night, using a random numbers program in the laptop I carried. We'd been at it ever since, dropping the dollars, quarters, and nickels, doing the numbers at night....
Reference: Sandford, John 2003. The Hanged Man's Cross. New York, NY: G. P. Puntman's Sons.
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