Week of August 29th.

Below are the lesson plans from this week.  Simply download them.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Consumer Ec: Review Class Procedures, computer policies and grading poilicies.	Consumer Ec: Students will begin: My money personality Unit.  They will review powerpoint, homework and take notes.	Consumer Ec: Students will complete Acivity #1 from Money talks.	Consumer Ec: Students will complete Acivity #2 from Money talks.	Consumer Ec: Students will complete Acivity #3 from Money talks.
AP Stats: Review Class Procedures, rules and grading poilicies. Students will also receive Books an Read pages 3-14.	AP Stats: Students will take a test from their summer study packet.  Students will learn about the make-up and scoring of the AP test.	AP Stats: Students will also begin the unit: What is Statistics?	AP Stats: Students will continue with defining what is Statistics and how to take random samples.	AP Stats: Students will continue with taking random samples.
Stats: Review Class Procedures computer policies and and grading poilicies. Students will also receive books.	Stats: Students will begin the first unit on Defining Statistics and taking samples.	Stats: Students will continue with the power point from the first unit.	Stats: Students will continue with the power point from the first unit.	Stats: Students will continue with the power point from the first unit and finish the assignment given from class.
Algebra 1: Review Class Procedures computer policies and and grading poilicies.	Algebra 1: Students will name, simplify and order all types of real numbers before placing them on a number line.	Algebra 1: Students will continue with classifying and ordering real numbers.	Algebra 1: Students will review the order of operations as applied to integers only.	Algebra 1: Students will complete word problems and keystone related questions applying to the lessons from this week.

Week of August 29th.

Attached are the lesson plans from this week.  Simply download them.

Answering a question from earlier today...

Chapter 12, number 1a in our fast track book asks us to find a 97% confidence interval for the true population slope.  To do so, we must understand both our formula for confidence intervals and the computer printout.

Formula

b - t (E) < B < b + t(E)

where b is our given slope value from the printout.  (Coefficient for Registrations) = 9.2472
 E is our standard error of the coefficient for the slope.  (SE coef for Registrations) = .2145
and "t" is our t-score.

Since B is the parameter we are trying to estimate, it would not make sense to use it in our formula to find "t".  Therefore "t" is taken straight from our student's t-distribution chart.  The degrees of freedom is seven and we look across for 97%.  However, we see there is only a value given for 95% and 98% in our Actual textbook.  The value at 95% IS 2.365 and the value at 98% is 2.998.  Therefore 97% falls somewhere in between.  A good estimate of this can be made around 2.75 however, the Fast Track book reveals its exact answer to be 2.715.

So, since
b - t (E) < B < b + t(E)
9.2472 - 2.715 (.2145) < B < 9.2472 + 2.715 (.2145)

Since we likely would use an estimate of "t" and not the exact value in this case, 2.7 or 2.75 would have sufficed.  However, I believe it likely that on the AP exam, they will give a value that is easily obtained from the chart or easily estimated.
Any more questions on this can be answered tomorrow.

Week of May 9th

Geometry:  Continue with circles.  This will include a possible retest from last week so study up!
Algebra 1:  Students will continue to factor polynomials.
Stats:  Students will conduct their hypothesis test on a speed trap for the proportion of people who speed through the school zone.
AP Stats:  Review for AP test!  Test is on Thursday!

Week of 4/17

Geometry:  Students will continue to explore circles, central angles, arcs and inscribed angles.  Then they will move into secants and tangent lines to a circle.  Students will complete lessons 10-3 through 10-5 this week.

Algebra 1:   Students will begin operations involving polynomials.  These will include adding, subtracting and multiplying.  Students will complete lessons 8-1 and 8-2 for homework.

AP Stats:  Students will take their chapter 8 test on Tuesday.  Then we will move into regression analysis for the remainder of the week.

Stats:  Students have begun hypothesis testing for means and will complete lessons 8-3 and 8-4 for homework. 

Week of 4/4

Geometry:  Students will be finishing chapter 8 with a test on Wednesday.  Then they will begin learning about circles and their properties.

Stats:  Chapter 7 test is on Wednesday!  Chapter eight will bring in hypothesis testing.  Students will finish 8-2 for homework this week.

AP STATS:  Students will finish hypothesis testing this week and they will complete lessons 8-3 through 8-5 for homework.  Their fast track will also be due next Wednesday and their test will be on Wednesday as well.

Algebra 1:  We are currently working on Scientific Notation.  Worksheets 8-4 will be done this week.  Also, please begin to encourage your students to prepare for the Keystone Exams and stress the value of performing well under the pressure of a state test.

Week of 3/14

Stats:  Retest on Chapter 6 this Monday.  Then we will move into chapter 7 confidence intervals.

AP stats:  We will finish Chapter 7 this week on confidence intervals and then test on Thursday.  We will also hold our second round of AP practice tests this Friday.

Algebra 1:  Students will finish solving systems of linear inequalities this week and conclude the week with a chapter test.

Geometry:  Students will review for chapter 7 test on Tuesday.  Then we will begin working on Pythagorean theorem and right triangles.