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SCHEDULE FOR MATH 123 – May Term
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

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Dates	In Class Assignments	Due Dates for Outside Class Assignments
05 / 06 – Mon (Day 1)	Class Exercises 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-1ab, 3-2, 3-3ab
05 / 07 - Tue (Day 2)	Class Exercises 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4	(Start bringing your TI-84 (or TI-83) calculator to class) Read Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3 Complete Class Exercise 1-2 Do parts (a) to (f) of Class Exercise 2-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 1 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 2 Lab#0 Lab#1
05 / 08 - Wed (Day 3)	Class Exercises 5-1, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 6-6	Create the TI-84 calculator lists needed for Class Exercise 5-1 Complete Class Exercises 2-5, 3-3, 4-1, 4-2, and 4-3, if necessary Read Unit 4, Unit 5, and Unit 6 Lab#2 to be used with Text Exercise 3-6 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 3 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 4
05 / 09 - Thu (Day 4)	Class Exercises 7-1, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4	Complete Class Exercises 5-2, 6-1, and 6-2, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 5 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 6 Read Unit 7 and Unit 8 Create the TI-84 calculator lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 7 (Note: All lists you will ever need for future class exercises can be copied onto your TI-84 calculator by seeing your instructor for 30 seconds!)
05 / 10 - Fri (Day 5)	EXAM #1 (50 of the total 200 points from homework) Units #1 to #6 (inclusive) are covered. To prepare, do the Self-Test Problems in Units #1 to #6 and the odd numbers in Exercise Sets 1 to 6; answers to Self-Test Problems can be found near the end of each unit in the text, and answers to odd numbered exercises can be found here.
	Class Exercises 8-1, 8-2
05 / 13 - Mon (Day 6)	Class Exercises 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, 10-1, 10-2	Complete Class Exercises 8-2, if necessary Create or obtain the TI-84 calculator lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 9 Do Class Exercise 8-1 for submission Lab#3 to be used with Text Exercises 7-10 and 7-12 Lab#4 to be used with Text Exercise 8-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 7 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 8 Read Unit 9 and Unit 10
05 / 14 – Tue (Day 7)	Class Exercises 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, 11-4, 11-5, 12-1, 12-2	Complete Class Exercises 9-2, 9-3, 9-4, and 10-2, if necessary Lab#5 to be used with Text Exercise 10-10 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 9 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 10 Read Unit 11 and Unit 12 Do Class Exercises11-1ab, 11-2ab
05 / 15 – Wed (Day 8)	Class Exercises 13-1, 13-2, 13-3, 14-1abcd	(Be sure to get a copy of the tables in Appendix A here, if you don’t already have a copy) Lab#6 to be used with Text Exercise 12-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 11 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 12 Read Unit 13 and Unit 14
05 / 16 - Thu (Day 9)	EXAM #2 (50 of the total 200 points from homework) Units #7 to #12 (inclusive) are covered. To prepare, do the Self-Test Problems in Units #7 to #12 and the following odd number exercises: 7-1, 7-5, 7-7, 8-1, 8-3, 8-5, 9-3, 10-5&11-1&12-3, 11-3, 12-1, 12-7, 12-9; answers to Self-Test Problems can be found near the end of each unit in the text, and answers to odd numbered exercises can be found here.
	Class Exercises 14-1efghij	Submit Part 1 of the Project
05 / 17 - Fri (Day 10)	Class Exercises 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 16-1, 17-1, 17-2, 17-3ab	Do Class Exercise 14-1opq for submission Optional: Class Exercise 14-1klmn Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 13 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 14 Read Unit 15 and Unit 16
05 / 20 – Mon (Day 11)	Class Exercises 17-3, 17-4, 18-1, 18-2, 18-3	Complete Class Exercise 17-2, if necessary Optional: Class Exercise 16-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 15 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 16(Use both Table A.2 and the normalcdf function on the TI-84 calculator for each exercise, and compare answers.) Read Unit 17 and Unit 18
05 / 21 – Tue (Day 12)	Class Exercises 19-1, 20-1, 20-2	Submit Part 2 of the Project Complete Class Exercises 17-3 and 18-3, if necessary Even-numbers except #17-8 (which is optional) in Text Exercise Set 17 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 18 Read Unit 19 and Unit 20
05 / 22 – Wed (Day 13)	EXAM #3 (50 of the total 200 points from homework) Units #13 to #18 (inclusive) are covered. To prepare, do the Self-Test Problems in Units #13 to #18 and the following odd number exercises: 13-1. 13-3. 13-5, 13-7, 14-1, 14-3, 14-9, 15-1, 15-5, 16-1, 16-3, 16-5, 16-7, 17-1, 17-3, 17-5, 18-3, 18-5, 18-7, 18-9, 19-5, 19-7, 19-9; answers to Self-Test Problems can be found near the end of each unit in the text, and answers to odd numbered exercises can be found here.
	Class Exercises 20-3, 21-1, 21-2, 21-3	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 19 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 21
05 / 23 – Thu (Day 14)	Class Exercises 22-1, 22-2, 23-1, 23-2, 23-3, 23-4, 24-1, 24-2	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 20 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 21 Read Unit 21, Unit 22, and Unit 23 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 24
05 / 24 – Fri (Day 15)	Class Exercises 24-3, 24-4, 25-1, 26-1, 26-2, 26-3, 26-4, 26-5	Complete Class Exercise 24-2, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 22 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 23 Read Unit 24, Unit 25, and Unit 26 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 26
05 / 28 - Tue (Day 16)	Class Exercises 27-1, 27-2, 28-1	Submit Part 3 of the Project Complete Class Exercises 24-4 and 26-5, if necessary Lab#7 to be used with Text Exercise 25-6 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 24 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 25 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 26 Read Unit 27, Unit 28, Unit 29, and Unit 30
05 / 29 - Wed (Day 17)	EXAM #4 (50 of the total 200 points from homework) Units #20 to #26 (inclusive) are covered. (Note: Not only should you be able to do hypothesis tests and obtain confidence intervals using the TI-84 calculator, but you should also be able to read SPSS output.) To prepare, do the Self-Test Problems in Units #22 to #26, the odd numbers in Exercise Sets 22 to 26, and Exercise 27-3; answers to Self-Test Problems are near the end of each unit in the text, and answers to odd numbered exercises are here.
	Class Exercises 29-1, 29-2, 30-1, 30-2	Lab#8 to be used with Text Exercise 27-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 27
05 / 30 – Thu (Day 18)	Class Exercises 31-1	Class Exercises 29-3 and 30-2 Lab#9 to be used with Text Exercise 28-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 28 Lab#10 to be used with Text Exercise 29-2 Lab#11 to be used with Text Exercise 29-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 29 Lab#12 to be used with Text Exercise 30-2 Lab#13 to be used with Text Exercise 30-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 30 Read Unit 31 Submit Part 4 of the Project Work on Part 5 of the Project before the end of class and submit today or next class
05 / 31 – Fri (Day 19)	FIINAL EXAM (50 of the total 400 points from homework) The Final Exam is cumulative, but Units #22 to #31 (hypothesis testing and confidence intervals) will be much more heavily emphasized; you should know both how to use the TI-84 calculator and how to read SPSS output. All Self-Test Problems and all odd number exercises can serve as a review for the final exam, with more heavy emphasis on those from Units Exercise #22 to #31. A special list of odd-numbered problems that can be used as a “sample final exam” is displayed at the end of this webpage. Answers to Self-Test Problems can be found near the end of each unit in the text, and answers to odd numbered exercises can be found here.	Submit Part 5 of the Project if not submitted already Lab#14 to be used with Text Exercise 31-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 31

“Sample Final Exam” Exercises

#1) Text Exercise 29-1 or 29-3

#2) Text Exercise 28-1 or 28-3 or 31-7

#3) Text Exercise 30-3 or 31-5

#4) Text Exercise 24-1 or 26-9

#5) Text Exercise 24-3 or 24-5 or 25-5 or 30-5

#6) Text Exercise 31-1 or 31-3

#7) Text Exercise 26-1 or 26-3 or 26-5 or 26-7

#8) Text Exercise 17-1 or 17-3 or 18-5

#9) Text Exercise 4-1

#10) Text Exercise 4-3