| Date | Class: Monday, 12:30am to 2:10pm |
Homework |
Class: Thursday 12:30am to 2:10pm |
Homework |
| --, 9/4 |
Labor Day |
Introductions. Blackboard. More women murdered on the job. (percentages,
'what else?', context). Pre-SATS |
Enroll in Blackboard. Start postings. | |
| 9/8, 9/11 |
Course theme(s): Ask questions: what is the (operational)
definition? What is the denominator? What is the ... context? What is a reasonable
answer? Testing. Large number of False positives. |
Postings |
Everyone to take
the PSAT. (measures of centrality). Educational
High Stake testing (measures of centrality, continued) Burden on taxpayer of library bond. |
Postings, Find reports on local test scores and make
extra posting. |
| 9/15,9/18 |
Unit pricing. Spreadsheets and graphing COMPUTER
LAB |
Postings. |
Was the Lottery
better when run by the Mob? (fair bets, expected value) |
Postings, Find reports on lottery. |
| 9/22,9/25 |
Analyzing games (chance, memory, logic, mixture) | Postings. |
Probability. Games of Chance. Iraqi voting. Primary voting. |
Postings. |
| 9/29, 10/2 |
Smoking risks. Hormone Replacement Therapy. Preview on sampling. Correlations. Diagrams and charts for communicating risk. | Postings. Prepare diagram(s). |
Presentations of diagrams. Everyone dies.
Dying young[er] versus bad breath. Car versus airplane accidents. (Immediate
risk. Cumulative risk. Reported incidences.) |
Postings. |
| 10/6, -- | Electoral
vote maps. Re-districting. Minority districts |
Postings. | No class: religious observance for teacher. |
Access district maps, news stories. Postings. |
| 10/13,10/16 |
Pre-Election Predictions. (margin of
error, confidence value, p=.05, p=.01) |
Postings. |
Exit polls (models
of population, sample coverage). |
Review on-line guide. Post topic for Project I. |
| 10/20,10/23 |
Review for midterm. |
Study for midterm |
MIDTERM |
Work on Project I (report and presentation) |
| 10/27,10/30 |
Go over midterm How to keep digital photos? (representations, standards) |
work on project, postings |
Computer lab for Excel. Maintain weight. Results from midterm. | Work on Project I (report and presentation) |
| 11/3, 11/6 |
Guessing on tests. Out-of-wedlock babies. (accessing Census
data). |
Complete Project I. |
Present Project I. (Everyone be
prepared to present.) |
Postings |
| 11/10,11/13 |
Superintendent's Pay. Cost of programs. (net present value. Time value of money. Return on investment). Costs of Library Bond issue. | Postings |
Computer lab for Excel. Mortgages. Home Equity
|
Postings. |
| 11/17, 11/20 |
The
pension problem. (taxes, insurance, investment options, life expectancy,
Social Security). Stocks. Bonds. Index funds. Medical insurance options. |
Postings. |
Too Many Adjuncts? Sports records--keep being set? Significant digits. Asymptotic trends. |
|
| 11/24, -- |
Pre-Challenger flight data. Tufte: on dimensions. Napoleon's march. Bad/fake bar charts. Connecticut driving law. |
Postings. Go on-line, find and do retirement exercise for yourself and/or parent(s) OR use my on-line characters.. Make a posting on the experience. DO NOT INCLUDE FINANCIAL DETAILS. | Thanksgiving Holiday | Post topic for Project II. Extra credit: Go to Tufte site and post report on 1 (unique) topic. Extra credit: Get question on Ask Tufte site. |
| 12/1,12/4 |
The 'crow flies'
versus 'streets and avenues'. How much does speeding benefit? Survey of
India. How big is Greenland? How long is the coast line? (Map projections. Fractal dimension.) |
Find alternative types of map projections. Postings. |
Decision making. Optimization (constraints versus objective function) |
Complete Project II (Paper and informal presentation
or formal presentation (charts and handouts) |
| 12/8,12/11 |
Presentations. (Everyone be prepared to
present.) |
Prepare for final: study guide |
Presentations. Origami if there is time. | |
| 12/15 |
12noon to 2:30 FINAL | Take post-course survey on Blackboard | Happy holidays |
| Original Blackboard postings on news stories | 15 |
| Responses to other postings. MUST POST EVERY WEEK. | 10 |
| Spreadsheet and graphing exercises | 10 |
| Project I: story re-write | 10 |
| Midterm | 10 |
| Project II: story re-write or article on one of lessons |
15 |
| Class room exercises & diagram homework | 10 |
| Final | 20 |