19 APR 2023 GRADE 12 ESSENTIAL. Word of the day: Percentile Rank
Announcement(s):
- Winter Storm (?) Alert. In event of a significant winter storm Thursday (tomorrow), the Regular Weekly Thurday Quiz will be deferred to Monday. Keep an eye on this blog for update(s) and tomorrow’s blog regarding the quiz deferement. Of course, even if big storm, still expected to work math at home for 2-3 hours with the readily available resources, videos, workbook, blogs you have.
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Today’s Lesson(s)
- Warmup. (from Past Exam Stats Qs)
- Caution about Statistics. Using one number to represent a set of data may be useful in some cases, but a histogram snapshot of all the data tells the story so much better: Party Cruise!
- Unit C Notes pp. 14 – 19 and some practice questions at the end. Trimmed Means, Weighted Means, and Percentile Ranks
- Update: Lesson Support Weighted Means A few videos to say the same thing we said in class.
- Update: My Curling Score brain fart. Had a brain fart trying to explain how to turn a 50% into an 80% succees based on 16 tries. Curling Success Movie
- Assgt C -5 Percentile Rank. (Due: in class 19 Apr) Where do you fit in the 100 dog sled team? The scenery doesn’t change much unless you are the lead dog!!
- Lesson Support Video(s) : Percentile Rank
- Work (self-study) in issued Statistics Workbook (not hand-in)
- Check out Assgt C-6 Percentile Rank and Trimmed Means.
- UPDATE: Progress Reports were available at the end of the day to come collect.
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