MATH 6140 Class Schedule and Assignment List

Summer 2008

Daily Quiz

Every day except the first day of class, a quiz will be given that covers the previous day’s assigned material. Students will have from 8:00 to 8:30 to complete the quiz. Students arriving late will not be given extra time. Missed quizzes may not be made up. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped to accommodate extenuating circumstances that may have required a quiz to be missed.

Daily Assignment Samples

Students are responsible for completing all assignments listed. Those assignments that cannot be completed in class should be completed as homework. At the beginning of each class meeting, students will turn in two items from the previous day’s assignment list:

1) An item selected by the instructor; and

2) A different item selected by the student

These items will be weighted equally in the evaluation of the student’s daily work. Each item will be graded based on three criteria: correctness (30 points); completeness and thoroughness (10 points); organization, neatness, and readability (10 points)

The assignment sample will be collected at 8:00 a.m. every day (except the first day of class). Late submissions will not be accepted. The lowest classwork grade will be dropped to accommodate extenuating circumstances that may have required a submission to be missed.

Assignment Portfolio

Students will complete a portfolio of assignments selected from those assignments not previously submitted as daily work samples.

Each entry should contain:

1) the completed assignment

2) one or two paragraphs evaluating the assignment, both as a learning activity and as a resource for teaching, including ideas about how to use or modify the lesson for your own class

The portfolio should contain a total of 8 entries selected from the assignments listed in the schedule. The portfolio will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Eight Individual Entries: 10 points per entry [80%]				Portfolio Overall [20%]
Correctness: 4	Thoroughness: 2	Neatness: 1	Evaluation: 3	Variety: 10	Presentation: 10
0 – most or all answers incorrect	0 – items left unanswered or inadequate detail	0 – entry is disorganized or difficult to read	0 – no evaluation of entry 1 – minimal	Entries selected from a variety of days in the course schedule 2 – two days 4 – three days 6 – four days 8 – five days 10 – six days	Separate tabbed entries, spelling, grammar, professional appearance 6 and below – poor 7 – moderate 8 – good 9 – excellent 10 – “extra mile” perfect
2 – at least half of answers correct	1 – minimal detail, work, explanation		2 – incomplete or unclear evaluation
4 – at least 90% of answers correct	2 – answers have sufficient detail, explanation	1 – entry is neat, readable, and well organized	3 – clear, specific, insightful evaluation

	Activities, Topics, and Class Assignments (Italics = reading/content; Bullet = classwork/homework item)
Day	8:00 (8:30) – 10:00 a.m.	10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	12:30 – 2:15 p.m.	2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
July 17 (Th)	-Introduction/Overview -Expectations -Events, Randomness, Fairness -Experimental and Theoretical Probability -Equally Likely, Certain, and Impossible Events -Mutual Exclusion § p 1 § pp 3 – 4 § pp 5 – 7 § pp 9 – 10 § p 11 § p 13 § p 15	-Complements -Compound Events -Table and Tree Diagrams § p 17 § pp 25 – 26 § pp 27 – 28 § p 29 § pp 31 – 32	-Replacement vs. Non- replacement -More Tree Diagrams! -Dependent and Independent Events -Matrix and Lattice § p 35 § p 39 § p 51 § pp 36 – 38 § p 33	-Fairness Revisited -Even More Tree Diagrams!! -Prob/Sim Apps on TI-73 & 83 § pp 41 – 43 § pp 45 – 50 § p 52 (*challenge) pp 19 – 24
July 18 (F)	-Area Models -Simulations -Monte Carlo § pp 53 – 54 § p 55 § pp 56 – 58 § p 60 § p 61 § pp 62 – 64 p 59	-Pascal’s Triangle -Conditional Probability § pp 71 – 72 § pp 73 – 80 § p 91 pp 81 – 90	-Odds -Expected Value -Counting Techniques § p 93 § p 94 § p 95 § p 97 § p 98 § pp 103 – 104 § p 105 § p 107 § p 108 § pp 113 – 114 pp 99 – 102, pp 109 – 111	-Permutations § pp 115 – 116 § p 119 § p 121 § p 122 § p 123
July 21 (M)	-Permutations -Combinations § p 124 § pp 125 – 126 § p 128 § p 129	-Probability with Permutations & Combinations § p 127 § p 130	-Data: Line Plots, Bar Graphs, Pictographs § pp 141 – 145 pp 131 – 137 pp 139 – 140	-Circle Graphs -Calculator Plots § pp 147 – 152 § pp 153 – 158
July 22 (T)	-Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode, Range -Histograms § pp 159 – 160 § pp 161 – 165 § pp 209 – 211 § pp 213 – 214 p 212	Stem-Leaf Plots Box & Whisker Plots Quartiles § pp 169 – 170 § pp 171 – 174 § pp 175 – 180 § pp 182 – 184 pp 167 – 168 p 181	Interpreting Box Plots § pp 185 – 186 § pp 187 – 188 § pp 189 – 190	Line Graphs Comparing Graphs § pp 191 – 194 § p 203 + histogram & boxplot
July 23 (W)	-Scatter Plots – Linear -Least Squares Line of Best Fit § pp 215 – 218 (w/ class data) § p 219 § pp 223 – 225 pp 220 – 222	-Median Fit Lines -Data Sampling § pp 227 – 230 § pp 207 – 208 § pp 201 – 202 pp 205 – 206; pp 195 – 200	Dispersion: Variance and Standard Deviation § pp 246 – 248, including ‘Communication’ and ‘Representation’ at end § pp 253 – 254 § p 255 § p 256 § p 257 pp 243 – 246; pp 249 – 252	Normal Probability Distributions § p 258 § p 259
July 24 (Th)	Non-Linear Scatter Plots Geometric Probability § pp 231 – 234 pp 65 – 68; pp 235 – 242	Student Lesson Presentations (10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)	Review (1:15 – 1:45 p.m.)	Final Exam (1:45 – 3:45 p.m.)

Work Portfolio is due by end of day on Friday, July 25.

If portfolio is not submitted on last day of class, it needs to be delivered to me in the Math/CS Department of NGCSU by Friday, July 25. You may bring it to the office in person between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (The secretary or other faculty can deliver it to me.)

Note that e-mail is NOT an option for delivering your portfolio.