MATH 10040 INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS PLUS - Spring 2024






Sample Syllabus

MW Suggesed Day by Day
Expectations for graduate assistant; Expectations for classroom undergrad tutor

Revised (12/8/2015) Transfer Module Statistics Guidelines (TMM-010); Learning Outcomes

   2016 GAISE College Report;  Goals for Students in an Introductory Course; AIMS Website; M.A.A. Minicourse #5 Notes (from Jan '16 - LOTS of resources!)

 
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES SECTION BY SECTION READING GUIDES MYMATHLAB & StatCrunch  
CHAPTER 1 Chapter 1Chapter 2, Chapter 3,  Student tech help:  800-677-6337 or website    
COREQUE ACTIVITY:  Fractions,Decimals,Percents,Two-Way Tables;
REGULAR ACTIVITIES:   Class Survey Activity; Gettysburg Address (Sampling) Random Sampling Methods;   Beethoven and Intelligence
Chapter 4Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Instructor Help: 1-888-695-6577    
  Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9  Instructor Help Resources for teaching with MML or  MyStatLab  
CHAPTER 2   Forming a Group on Stat Crunch; Student handout- join group
COREQUE ACTIVITY: Ordering Fractions and Decimals;    
REGULAR ACTIVITIES:   Stem and Leaf Plot Constructing a Two-Way Table;  Distinguishing Distributions:  Dot Plots; Submission Form Age of Presidents at InaugurationMatching Histograms to Variable Descriptions;
SECTION BY SECTION LEARNING OUTCOMES FINAL EXAM REVIEW MATERIALS  
Making a histogram on StatCrunch;  Oil Consumption (Pie chart, bar graph)  Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Practice Final Exam 1  
  Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6 Practice Final Exam 2
CHAPTER 3 Chapter 7;   Chapter 8 Chapter 9
COREQUE ACTIVITY: Order of Operations, Use of Calculator, Summation Notation;                                                                      
REGULAR ACTIVITIESWhat Is Typical?; What Does a Mean Mean?;   Standard      
Deviation- The BasicsWhat Makes SD Larger?; Deadly Hurricanes;
Hurricane Data;   Interpreting Boxplots;    Matching Histograms to Boxplots 
SCALE-UP LAB TECHNOLOGY INFO 
(Kent Campus)
MORE RESOURCES  
  General technology information Discovery Learning Stat Projects - NSF funded  
CHAPTER 4 Sharing a student's desktop Stat Trek!  (Teach Yourself Statistics Online)
COREQUE ACTIVITY:  A Review of Slope, Intercepts, and Linear Functions    
REGULAR ACTIVITIES:  Univariate vs Bivariate data (Handout); ScatterplotsLurking
Showing Java applets C.A.U.S.E. Website (Consort.Advancmnt Undergrad Stat Ed)  
 Variables;  Guessing CorrelationsDiamond Rings; The Regression Line; Table numbering C.A.U.S.E.Web Activities  
Text Messaging;  Interpreting Slopes and Y-Intercepts Table and monitor numbering Online Stat book
  Rossman-Chance applets
CHAPTER 5 TECHNOLOGY GUIDES More Stat Applets  
 COREQUE ACTIVITIES: Venn Diagrams;  Extra Practice Sample Spaces,etc Tutorial videos; Entering Data and Finding 1 var stats; Data Sets for Classroom Use  
 REGULAR ACTIVITIES:  Random Babies; Random Babies HAND IN; Random Babies   Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) (from UCLA)  
Three Moms; Random Babies Theoretical Probability; Sample Spaces and EventsBasic Probability;   A Sweet TaskUsing AND or OR to Combine  Events;   RESEARCH CORNER  
Conditional ProbabilityConditional Probabilities Symbolically;   Cognitive Theory and Statistics Instruction  
 Mutually Exclusive Events; Simulation Activity;   Learning to Reason About Data  
 Modeling A Random PhenomenonIndependent Events   Reasoning About Models
  Reasoning About Center
CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 8 Reasoning About Variability
COREQUE ACTIVITIES: Areas and Z-Scores;  Probability Vocab          
REGULAR ACTIVITIES:  Discrete Probability DistributionsExpected ValueWhat is
COREQUE: Scientific Notation Hypoth Test vs Confidence Int; Hypoth. Test Reasoning About Distributions
 Normal?   Normal Distribution Applications;   Binomial or Not?;  Binomial Vocabulary   REGULAR ACTIVITIES:  Balancing Coins Part 1 Practice Reasoning About Comparing Groups  
Practice Binomial Probabilities; with Null and Alt hypotheses;  Types of Errors; Reasoning About Samples and Sampling Distributions  
   Practice with Type I/Type II Errors; Hypoth Test Proportions;   Reasoning About Inference  
CHAPTER 7   Students' Reasoning about the Normal Distribution
COREQUE: Sampling Dist/Dist of SampleM&M Sim;  Calculate CIInterpret CI.
REGULAR ACTIVITIES:
Biased Sampling PracticeSampling Distribution of Sample
CHAPTER 9  
Proportions;  Reese's Pieces PART 1Reese's Pieces PART 2; RP PART 4; COREQUE:  Guess My Parameter FLASHBOOK MODEL:  
Reese's Pieces SubmissionUnderstanding Confidence Intervals; REGULAR: Sampling Distribution of Sample Means;    Video:  How to Pair your MML course with Blackboard
Confidence Intervals for a Proportion     Continued -----------------> Estimating Word Lengths (Confidence Intervals)Confidence    
Intervals for a Mean; Skill and Drill - Confidence Intervals for a  
MeanTests of Significance for Means NBA Scoring; Tests for
  Means -  TV Watching    

 

     
Activities for CO-Reque only      
    Instructor Home  

Bev Reed, Ph.D.  Professor      breed1@kent.edu    330-672-9092