MTH 1008 (BLENDED Section)
General Elementary Statistics
Course Syllabus
Contact Information Email Protocol
Schedule Practice Exercises Grading and Assessments Course Policies
Course: MTH 1008, General Elementary Statistics, 08/FA
Prerequisite: MTH 0907 and MTH 0908 both with C or better, or the appropriate score on a math placement exam.
E-mail (preferred): Dawn_Wiggins@ivcc.edu
Phone: (815) 224-0339
Address: 815 N. Orlando Smith Ave.
Oglesby, IL 61348
Office Hours: E-307
Web Site: http://www.ivcc.edu/dwiggins
Correspondence Replies: Barring unforeseen circumstances, I will check and reply to messages at least once per day during the week. I will check and reply to messages once over the weekend. I believe that my schedule for checking messages will result in a reply within at least 48 hours, but most likely less than 24 hours.
Email Protocol:
Unless otherwise instructed, send email to my campus email account. When composing the message, identify the course
(MTH 1008) in the subject line and include your full name in the body of
the email.
Materials:
Text: Statistics, Informed Decisions Using Data (second edition),
Sullivan (and the MyMathLab Student Access Kit)
Other Required Materials: Scientific calculator (I
recommend the TI-30X IIS or TI-30X IIB), graphing calculators NOT permitted;
pencil; notebook or loose leaf paper for practice exercises
Description:
This course is intended to provide students with a basic understanding of the
role of statistics in society along with a workable knowledge of statistical
methods. Topics include graphical methods of organizing data, numerical
descriptions of data, basic probability theory, probability distributions,
statistical inference, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and
regression, and analysis of variance.
Schedule and Practice Exercises:
The practice exercise problems are located at the end of each section. The assigned practice exercises are to help you gain proficiency with the material. You may find that you need to complete more exercises than those assigned to master the material. Class time will be devoted to answering questions from the exercises. To keep on schedule, you are expected to complete a section’s practice exercises after the material has been covered in class, but before the next class period. I strongly recommend, however, that you read the section and preview the exercises prior to the material's coverage in class. I also recommend that you maintain your completed practice exercises in a notebook for practice exercise quizzes.
Section 1.1- Introduction to the Practice of Statistics; 2,11,28,31,33,37,44
Section 1.2- Observational Studies, Experiments, and Simple Random Samples;
3,23a,25,
Section 1.3- Other Effective Sampling Methods; 4,5,9,10,14,12,
Section 1.4- Sources of Error in Sampling; 2,3,4,11,14,16,23
Section 2.1- Organizing Qualitative Data; 4,10,13,29
Section 2.2- Organizing Quantitative Data; 3,9,16,21,25,28,36
Section 2.4- Graphical Misrepresentations of data; 3,4
Exam Ch. 1/2 (Tentatively Week of September 8th)
Section 3.1- Measures of Central Tendency; 1,8,9,11,14,18,20,30,31
Section 3.2- Measures of Dispersion; 1,5,16,17,21,28ab,49a
Section 3.4- Measures of Position; 5,9,12,15a-c (exclude upper and lower fences)
Section 3.5- Five Number Summary and Boxplots; 6,11
Section 4.1- Scatter Diagrams and Correlation; 2,4,5,10,11-16,17,20,38
Section 4.2- Least-Squares Regression; 2,6,9,13,17,21
Section 4.3- Diagnosis of Least-Squares (partial);1,2,15,16,25
Exam Ch. 3/4 (Tentatively Week of September 29th)
Section 5.1- Probability Rules; 1,2,4,5,9,12,13,16,21,29,32,35,38
Section 5.2- The Addition Rule and Complements;
1,3,4,5,7,12,13,15,17,19,21,25,29,32
Section 5.3- Independence and the Multiplication Rule; 1-4,7,11,13,17,21
Section 5.4- Conditional Probabilities and the General Multiplication Rule;
1,2,3,7,11,22,27,28
Section 5.5- Counting Techniques; 21, 22,31,32
Section 6.1- Discrete Random Variables; 1,2,7,8,11,15,23,30
Section 6.2- The Binomial Probability Distribution; 1,7,9,11,17,24,26,35,43
Exam Ch. 5/6 (Tentatively Week of October 27th)
Section 7.1- Properties of the Normal Distribution;
1,2,7,8,9,18,23,26,27,29,32
Section 7.2- The Standard Normal Distribution; 3,5,7,10
Section 7.2- The Standard Normal Distribution II; 17,19,23,33,40,46,49,50
Corrections: #17 is 2.05
Section 7.3- Applications of the Normal Distribution; 3,5,11,17,22,24
Corrections: #3 is 0.9838, #5 is 0.2389, #11 is 0.7175
The textbook has published the results for 3, 5 & 11 using Excel, rather than
the results using Table IV.
Section 8.1- Distribution of the Sample Mean; 1,4,6,9,11,15,19,24
Exam Ch. 7/8 (Tentatively Week of November 17th)
Section 9.1- Introduction to Confidence Intervals; 2,4,14,16 (+ Interpret),21,22,23,24,33
Section 9.2- More Confidence Intervals; 2,4,14,16,19,21,22
Section 10.1- The Language of Hypothesis Testing;
1,2,6,9,13,14,15,18,21,22,35,40
Section 10.2- Hypothesis Testing; 2,3,7,9,11,12,13,20,31 + 19
Section 10.3- More Hypothesis Testing; 1,2,5,6,7,13,15,19
Exam Ch. 9/10 (Tentatively Week of December 1st)
Course Schedule: Blended Schedule
Final Exam: Finals Schedule
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Quizzes, Surveys, etc.:
The following types of quizzes may be administered for the course during the course of the semester.
Practice Exercise Quiz - taken during class; you will be allowed to use your practice exercises, but not your book.
In-Class Quiz - taken during class; generally, notes, books, and practice exercises may not be used. Questions will consist of material from class and the assigned practice exercises.
Take-Home Quiz (THQ) - completed outside of class; due at the beginning of the next class period, unless specified otherwise.
You will earn a score of zero if you are not in class when a quiz is given or submit a take-home quiz after the assigned due date/time.Surveys will, typically, be online. There may, however, be surveys given during class.
Online Homework
Complete the online homework using MyMathLab.Projects:
Most of you will be required to work in a group setting in your future profession. As such, you may be required to work with at least one other person for the projects in this course.A penalty will be incurred for late project submissions. You have up to two business days to submit a late project. There is a 10% penalty for each business day that the project is late.
Exams:
The exams for the course will be administered at the IVCC Assessment Center. You must schedule an appointment and present a photo ID to take the exam. There is a 3 day window scheduled for each exam.You are expected to take each exam in pencil. (A 5 point penalty will result if you do not use pencil.)
Graphing calculators are NOT permitted during exams; only scientific calculators may be used.
If you have a conflict with the time-frame that an exam is available, you may take the exam early; I will need at least one work day notice prior to the date that you would like to make up the exam. If you miss an exam, you may make up the points for a single missed exam at the end of the semester with your final exam score. You will earn a score of zero for any subsequent missed exam(s).
Your exam will be graded within one week of the last exam day. Grades are available in the MyMathLab gradebook.
Final Exam:
Check the schedule for the final exam time and location.Replace Lowest Exam Score:
If the percentage on your final exam is higher than your lowest exam score, then your lowest exam score will be replaced with the percentage from your final exam. The final exam percentage can only be used to replace a single exam score in the course. So, if you have missed an exam, then the final exam score will be used to replace the score for the missing exam.
Attendance:
You are expected to attend classes regularly. Attendance is taken to maintain records for financial aid, state auditing, and athletic progress reports. If you miss class, it is your responsibility to keep up with the course (e.g. check the schedule, work on assigned practice exercises, complete online homework assignments, get class notes from a classmate, etc.). If you have specific questions on the missed course content, contact me to schedule an appointment.Academic Conduct:
Academic honesty is expected. Violations will not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, copying answers off another student's exam, submitting another person’s work as your own, having crib sheets during an exam, and using a graphing calculator during an exam. I reserve the right to assign a score of zero on any assignment where academic dishonesty occurs. I also reserve the right to file an Academic Dishonesty Report with the office of Academic Affairs. Other possible disciplinary action includes failure of the course or withdrawal from the course; and, possibly, withdrawal from the college.Classroom Computer Etiquette:
We will periodically use the classroom computers for projects. To avoid disruptions to fellow students, however, please DO NOT power-on the classroom computers unless instructed to do so. I reserve the right to immediately dismiss any student from class who disobeys this policy; repeated offenses may result in withdrawal from the course.Electronic Devices:
To avoid disruptions to fellow students, please silence all electronic devices (e.g. cell phones, pagers, etc.) prior to the beginning of each class. Unless it is an emergency, you will assume a 5 point penalty if your device "rings" during an exam.Request for Instructor Signature:
Please bring any forms that you need for me to sign by my office during office hours. If you cannot make it during my office hours, I would be happy to set up an appointment with you.School Closings and Class Cancellations:
In the event of inclement weather, please tune to a local radio station for possible school closings. Any assignments that are due on a day that the school is closed or class is cancelled will be due during the next scheduled class period. If an exam is scheduled for such a day, it will be conducted during the next scheduled class period. Check IVCC's Class Cancellations (http://www.ivcc.edu/cancellations.aspx?id=2810) for class announcements.Special Needs Educational Support Services:
You may be eligible for academic accommodations through the Disability Services Office if you have a documented physical, psychiatric, or cognitive disability such as a learning disability or ADD/ADHD. If you have a disability and need more information regarding possible accommodations, please contact Tina Hardy at 224-0284 or Judy Mika at 224-0350; or, stop by office B-204.Withdrawals:
All withdrawals earn a grade of "W", which does not affect the GPA, but deletes the course credit(s) for the involved course(s). Withdrawal from the course is NOT automatic. Even if you cease all activity in the course, you must be withdrawn from the course. All students on the roster at the end of the course will be assigned a grade. It is your responsibility to see me at my office to complete the paperwork for a withdrawal from the course. The last day for withdrawal is Friday November 7th, 2008. If you wish to withdraw from this course, but cannot reach me, it is your responsibility to contact the dean of English, Mathematics, and Education, Marianne Dzik.
Withdrawal from a course can affect financial aid. Students who receive financial aid should contact an advisor in the Financial Aid Office before withdrawing from a course.
NOTE: This course syllabus is subject to change to meet the
learning needs of the students and/or the needs of the professor.
11-13-08: Revised 10.2 practice exercises
Last Updated: 13 November, 2008