MATH 10041 INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS - Fall 2023






Sample Syllabus 

Tentative Day by Day Schedules:  MWTR;

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    
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
Stem and Leaf Plot Constructing a Two-Way Table;  Distinguishing Distributions:  Dot Plots; Submission Form Age of Presidents at Inauguration; SECTION BY SECTION LEARNING OUTCOMES FINAL EXAM REVIEW MATERIALS  
Matching Histograms to Variable Descriptions;  Making a histogram on StatCrunch; Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Practice Final Exam 1  
 Oil Consumption (Pie chart, bar graph)  Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6 Practice Final Exam 2
Chapter 7;   Chapter 8 Chapter 9
CHAPTER 3                                                                      
What Is Typical?; What Does a Mean Mean?;   Standard Deviation- The Basics;      
What Makes SD Larger? ;   Standard Deviation - Applied Problems; Deadly Hurricanes Hurricane Data;   Interpreting Boxplots;    Matching Histograms to Boxplots  SCALE-UP LAB TECHNOLOGY INFO 
(Kent Campus)
RESEARCH CORNER  
  General technology information Cognitive Theory and Statistics Instruction  
CHAPTER 4 Sharing a student's desktop Learning to Reason About Data
Univariate vs Bivariate data (Handout); ScatterplotsLurking Variables;  Showing Java applets Reasoning About Models  
Guessing CorrelationsDiamond Rings; The Regression Line; Table numbering Reasoning About Center  
Text Messaging;  Interpreting Slopes and Y-Intercepts Table and monitor numbering Reasoning About Variability
  Reasoning About Distributions
CHAPTER 5 TECHNOLOGY GUIDES Reasoning About Comparing Groups  
Random Babies; Random Babies HAND IN; Random Babies Three Moms; Tutorial videos; Entering Data and Finding 1 var stats; Reasoning About Samples and Sampling Distributions  
Random Babies Theoretical Probability; Sample Spaces and EventsBasic Probability;  A Sweet TaskUsing AND or OR to Combine  Events;   Reasoning About Inference  
Conditional ProbabilityConditional Probabilities Symbolically;   Students' Reasoning about the Normal Distribution  
 Mutually Exclusive Events; Simulation Activity; MORE RESOURCES    
 Modeling A Random PhenomenonIndependent Events Discovery Learning Stat Projects - NSF funded FLASHBOOK MODEL INFO
Stat Trek!  (Teach Yourself Statistics Online) Video:  How to Pair your MML course with Canvas
CHAPTER 6 C.A.U.S.E. Website (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education)  
Discrete Probability DistributionsExpected ValueWhat is Normal?    C.A.U.S.E.Web Activities
Normal Distribution Applications;   Binomial or Not?;  Binomial Vocabulary Practice;    Binomial Probabilities; Online Stat book    
  Rossman-Chance applets    
CHAPTER 7 More Stat Applets  
Biased Sampling PracticeSampling Distribution of Sample Proportions;  Reese's Pieces PART 1Reese's Pieces PART 2; Reese's Pieces PART 4; Data Sets for Classroom Use  
Reese's Pieces SubmissionUnderstanding Confidence Intervals; Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) (from UCLA)
Confidence Intervals for a Proportion      
       
CHAPTER 8      
Balancing Coins Part 1 Practice with Null and Alt hypotheses;      
 Types of ErrorsPractice with Type I and Type II Errors;      
 Hypothesis Testing for Proportions      
       
CHAPTER 9      
Sampling Distribution of Sample Means;   Estimating Word Lengths (Confidence Intervals);Confidence Intervals for a Mean; Skill and Drill - Confidence Intervals for a MeanTests of Significance for Means NBA Scoring;   Instructor Home  
Tests of Significance for Means - Childrens TV ;Watching;      
       

Bev Reed, Ph.D. Professor and Course Coordinator      reed@math.kent.edu    330-672-9092

 
   

Activities for CO-Reque class