Timeline

-Geometric Series, from chapter 1 of Geometry book and Calc intro: topic derivatives 11/3

11/5: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/income-rich-asset-poor/413977/ read and discuss next class

11/10: -Bees and Serial Killers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7530666.stm

-Adderal Abuse: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/college-students-arent-the-only-ones-abusing-adderall/

11/12: Sorry guys, I'm not making it in today. I hope I manage to make it out of bed. Here's what I would like you to do:

Each of you guys choose two things you think could be correlated, like pinky finger length and foot length. Then collect data in the class and from whoever else you can find. Graph your points on excel or geogebra and see if you can figure out how to draw a line of best fit through the data. We will go over this next class. When done with this, check out the websites below, they all have some pretty interesting data.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?page=1

Gapminder.org

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-map-us-police-killings

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/iadb/NewInterMed.asp?Travel=NIxAZxI2x

http://www.cdc.gov/surveillancepractice/data.html

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/8/9684494/foreign-aid-map

http://www.city-data.com/

http://www.seediscover.com/death-rates-have-been-increasing-for-middle-aged-white-women-decreasing-for-men/

11/17: The hispanic paradox, answer to why whites are compared to hispanics in the article: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/11/the_decline_and_fall_of_white_america_inside_the_study_that_has_shocked_the_public_health_community/

-NBA Data: Each person has an NBA team, make a table with age, height, and weight. Find team averages and medians for them. Play with graphs and see which ones you think best show your data.

11/19: -Discuss the graphs we created to show our data and discuss pros and cons.

-Lets run a regression of height vs. weight of basketball players and talk about lines of best fit. We will try to do this on both drive and geogebra.

12/1: Go to CDC page and start researching std rates. Come up with product to share with school during sex ed.

Homework: Have a basic definition of the following vocab words, use stattrek or other online resources to find them.

Standard Deviation:

Mean:

Median:

Residual:

R^2 or Coefficient of Determination:

Normal Distribution:

Correlation:

Population:

Sample:

Z-Scores:

For your amusement, here is a website of spurious correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Another Hans Documentary!: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-end-poverty/

12/4:

Residuals: http://stattrek.com/regression/residual-analysis.aspx?Tutorial=AP

-how much stats do we want to cover....we can skim most of this website and it is pretty informative

-things we should know:

population and sample

-mean, median, outlier

standard deviation, variance(r^2) More r^2 and variance

z-scores

hypothesis testing

12/14/15: https://sites.google.com/site/statisticsindepth/basic-statistics

-http://stattrek.com/statistics/formulas.aspx

-combinatrics and factorials: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/probability-and-combinatorics-topic/permutations/v/factorial-and-counting-seat-arrangements

-http://betterexplained.com/articles/easy-permutations-and-combinations/

Chaos, Coincidences, and All that Math Jazz:

Chapter 2: Chaos. Try out excel exercise in chaos.

-What is Chaos?

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrsWPCp_rs Quantum Theory doc...watch part about electrons being waves of probability.