C & I 300 - Fall 2000 Agenda October 16, 2000

BRING M2T2 MATERIALS WITH YOU (the binder handed out at the first class meeting)

• More on IL Learning Standards and spreadsheets Share with class your one day lesson on variation
• Share with class your report on a professionally-developed website

Topics to be dealt with today: Expected value (see M2T2 Module, Data and Chance)

• Statistics in one variable: More on variation (mean deviation and standard deviation)

Assignments (due Oct 28 )

• More work on your home page
• For the following teaching plans, make use of spreadsheets and be sure to link to the IL Learning Standards:
• Plan for a three (approximately) day unit on expected value
• Plan for a three (approximately) day unit on variation using spreadsheets

Activities For October 16, 2000

Activity 1) (Use a spreadsheet) Form two groups.

Group I: Large variation From the weather page (provided)

1) find twelve cities around the country (at least three states) with LARGE

variation in yesterday's high temperature.

2) do a stem and leaf plot of these data

3) do a box plot of these data

4) find the mean deviation of these data.

5) tell a story about these data

Group II: Small variation From the weather page (provided)

1) find twelve cities around the country (at least three states) with SMALL

variation in yesterday's high temperature.

2) do a stem and leaf plot of these data

3) do a box plot of these data

4) find the mean deviation of these data

5) tell a story about these data.

Activity 2)

Rocket Launch

See M2T2 Module Five (Statistics) page 9.