Course Syllabus
Spring 2020 Last 8 weeks
AED 90.06 ( 30468) Math Support: Statistics
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Lec: 30468 Day: T TH Time: 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MP 104
Lab: 30469 Day: T TH Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Room: MP 104
Instructor: Lorena Ortiz e-mail: lortiz@cerritos.edu
Course Description:
This course is a math support course. The concepts of this course will help students build skills and understanding in topics related to the introduction of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will receive support in understanding mean, standard deviation, variance, probability, random variables, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, t-distribution, chi-square distribution, F-distribution, linear regression, and linear correlation. Students will gain conceptual knowledge and use analytical thinking to solve problems. The combination lecture/lab format will provide a foundation for introductory statistics. This course is open entry/open exit.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify and compute interpret basic statistics
- Solve application problems using sampling and distribution
- Interpret confidence interval
- Determine the validity of a statement using hypothesis testing
- Evaluate and apply basic statistics to everyday situations
Course Content:
- Summarizing data graphically and numerically;
- Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency, variation, relative position, and levels/scales of measurement;
- Sample spaces and probability;
- Random variables and expected value;
- Sampling and sampling distributions;
- Discrete distributions – Binomial;
- Continuous distributions – Normal;
- The Central Limit Theorem;
- Estimation and confidence intervals;
- Hypothesis Testing and inference, including t-tests for one and two populations, and Chi-square test;
- Correlation and linear regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA);
- Applications using data from disciplines including business, social sciences, psychology, life science, health science, and education; and
- Statistical analysis using technology such as SPSS, EXCEL, Minitab, or graphing calculators.
Textbook:
Great news: your textbook for this class is available for free online!
Statistics from OpenStax
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Homework: Complete lab assignments from your math course, eLumen, My Labs Plus, Open Stax assignments or canvas homework assignments.
Guideline:
- Overview: Videos Or Reading material.
STUDY SKILL: Reading or watching video mini lessons at your own pace and writing out all examples each video works out or textbook outlines, before each lecture is given by your Instructor. (active learning)
- Practice: Mandatory with 100% success
- Apply Word Problems: Mandatory 80-100% success
- Mastery Quiz: Mandatory 80%-100% success
Make time for this service, make it your study area, you will succeed if you invest your time with productive study habits.
Required materials Textbook, Scientific calculator (for certain sections only), ruler, graph paper (a few sheets), stapler. Submit all your work on 11in. X 8.5 paper and use pencil only. Always staple your work if needed.
Academic Dishonesty
If you are caught participating in an act of academic dishonesty, you will receive a disciplinary F in the course and your name will be reported to the appropriate academic deans. Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to copying from another student’s homework, quiz, or exam, allowing another student to copy your work and copying homework solutions from the text solution manual.
Attendance Policy
Daily attendance is required in this course and is important for your success in the course. It is your responsibility to contact another student, not the instructor, to find out what you missed. If you miss three classes or 6 hours of instruction, the instructor may drop you from the class. Two days late is equivalent to one absence. Participation is very important, in addition to being in class daily the student is responsible of not being late and not leaving class early. It is the student’s responsibility to withdraw from the course before the deadline.
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CELL PHONES MUST BE PUT ON SILENT MODE AND NOT ALLOWED ON TABLES DURNING CLASS TIME. Students cannot use their phones in class (no text messaging). Disruption of class and misbehavior will automatically have you removed from class.
Just a note: Do not hesitate to ask for help, as soon as you are having trouble with any section of this course. Please, ask for help.
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Week 1 |
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Week 2 |
Week 2 |
What are Data? Classifying and Storing Data
Exponent properties with negative exponents
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Organizing and Storing Data Collecting Data to Understand Causality
Scientific notation |
Visualizing Variation in Numerical Data Summarizing important Features of a Numerical Distribution
Addition and subtraction, like terms, and polynomial terminology |
Visualizing Variation in Categorical Variables Summarizing Categorical Distributions Interpreting Graphs
Formulas and the order of operations |
Week 3 |
Week 3 |
Week 4 |
Week 4 |
Summaries for Symmetric Distributions What’s Usual?
Distributive, commutative, and associative properties, and multiplying polynomials |
The Empirical and z – Scores
Writing and simplifying expressions |
Summaries for the Skewed Distributions Comparing Measures of Center
solving equations with one variable |
Using Box Plots for Displaying Summaries
Pythagorean theorem |
Week 5 |
Week 5 |
Week 6 |
Week 6 |
Visualizing Variability with a Scatter plot
Distance formula |
Measuring Strength of Association with Correlation
Operations and relationships |
Modeling Linear trends Evaluating the Linear Model
Functions with the order of operations |
What is Randomness? Random Variables
Solving linear equations |
Week 7 |
Week 7 |
Week 8 |
Week 8 |
Finding Theoretical Probabilities
Modeling then solving linear equation applications |
Associations in Categorical Variables
Modeling linear situations with tables, graphs, and equations |
Finding Empirical Probabilities
Slope and y-intercept from tables, graphs, and equations |
Probability Distributions Are Models of Random Experiments
Writing equations of lines using slope and a point or two points |
Week 9 |
Week 9 |
Week 10 |
Week 10 |
The Normal Model
Rational function modeling
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The Normal Model
Solving non-linear equations |
Measuring the quality of the survey
Literal equations |
The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Proportions
Greatest Common factor GCF |
Week 11 |
Week 11 |
Week 12 |
Week 12 |
Estimating the Population Proportion with Confidence Intervals Factoring |
Factoring Quadratic function modeling |
The Essential Ingredients of Hypothesis Testing Systems of two equations by graphing
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Hypothesis Testing
System of equations by substitution and elimination |
Week 13 |
Week 13 |
Week 13 |
Week 13 |
Hypothesis Testing in Detail |
Sample Means of Random Samples
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The Central Limit Theorem for Sample Means |
Answering Questions about the Mean of a Population |
Week 14 |
Week 14 |
Week 14 |
Week 14 |
Hypothesis Testing for Means |
Hypothesis Testing for Means |
t- distribution |
Chi-square distribution |
Week 15 |
Week 15 |
Week 15 |
Week 15 |
F- distribution |
REVIEW |
REVIEW |
Final Exam |
Tentative Schedule
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