Thursday, November 15, 2012

Class Topics: 11.15.12

In Math Six today, Mr. Giomini reviewed last night's Evening Practice with the students and discussed any questions that students may have struggled with on the assignment.  The previous night's Khan Skill was also discussed and how students need to work to score a Proficient on skills.

Students then divided into learning pods to apply all the skills that they learned during this chapter to prepare  for tomorrow's Chapter One summative posttest.
Today's Learning Goals: The student will be able to...
  1. evaluate expressions for given values.
  2. solve one and two-step equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  3. solve and graph inequalities.
  4. simplify algebraic expressions and equations by implementing the distributive property when needed.
  5. determine if an ordered pair is a solution to an equation.
  6. graph points on a coordinate plane.
For Evening Practice, it is suggested that the student...
  1. review all notes, videos, handout and pre-assessments to help with test preparation. 
In Pre-Algebra today, students began class by solving the following problem: 
Brock has taken 6 tests in Bio-Mechanical Engineering at Stanford and his average grade is an 85.  If he gets 100, a perfect score, on his next three assessments, what will his new average be? 
Once that question was discussed with colleagues and a solution was explained by the students, class moved into Lesson 4.3: Measures of Central Tendency. 

This lesson begins with some familiar terms: mean (average), median and mode along with a new term outlier.  We discussed how an outlier impacts the mean (average) and why that is and how we can analyze data more closely by determining the measures of central tendency.  
Today's Learning Goals: The student will be able to...
  1. find and calculate different measures of central tendency.
  2. determine which measure of central tendency best represents a set of data.
For Evening Practice, it is suggested that the student...
  1. complete Khan Skill: Average Word Problem (Two Stacks): You may use a calculator.
  2. identify the population, sample, sampling method and possible bias to the scenario below.
  3. post your Comment to the blog.
A pollster wants to know who is going to vote for their national candidate.  They select to poll the Midwest states and randomly call people from those states and ask them who they are voting for, Candidate X or Candidate Y.  They then post their results on an online blog and say that Candidate X, their candidate, was chosen 74% of the time.  

34 comments:

  1. Population:
    Sample:
    Sampling Method:
    Possible Bias:

    LJB

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  2. population: anyone who can vote
    sample: anyone in the Midwest stats.
    sampling method: stratified
    possible biased: some people over 18 can't legally vote because they are from a different country.

    ~Heidi

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  3. Mr.Giomimi

    P= People who vote
    S= People who live in the Midwest states
    SM= Stratified
    Why there is possible bias?= The pollster might have knew who people were going to vote for. So the pollster might have called only people who were going to vote for their candidate.

    -Hart

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  4. population:anyone in the USA
    sample:anyone in the midwest
    Bias: this sample could be bias because there might be
    some law in the midwest that one candidate doesn't cover
    that the other does therefore more people in the midwest
    would vote for the one that covers their law.

    YBS
    (your best student)

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  5. Population:The whole nation
    Sample:Mid-west states
    sampling method:Random
    Bias: Maybe the mid-west states are known for voting for one of the candidates sides.

    from,
    baugh

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  6. Population:The Nation
    Sample:Midwest States
    Sampling Method:Stratified
    Bias:Some of the states could be only voting for one of the candidates or some of the states could be a swing state and vote for only one candidate

    LJB

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  7. Sarah
    Pop-mid west states
    Sample-people from Midwest states
    Sm- stratified
    Bias-people from the Midwest states could want a different canident

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  8. Population: People living in the country
    Sample: Midwest people
    Sampling method: Stradified
    Bias: Only people in Midwest

    Nathan

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  9. Population- everybody who lives in the country

    Sample- everybody who lives in the Midwest

    Sampling method- stratified

    Biased-NONE

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  10. pop= all the people that live in the country

    sample= midwest people\

    SM= stradified

    Bias= some people cant vote because they are younger then 18 so they cant have all the people in midwest vote

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  11. Population=People able to vote
    Sample=People living in the Midwest
    Sampling Method=Stratified because people chosen randomly from subgroups
    Possible Bias=Only states in the Midwest and who their candidate.

    Professor

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  12. Pop: the nation
    Sample: people who live in the Midwest
    Sample method: stratefied
    Bias: the pollster might have known that the Midwest would vote for candidate X

    Apples

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  13. Population: All the people that live in the country

    Sample: Midwest people

    SM: Stratified

    Bias: Some people cant vote because they are to young or people just didn't vote

    Grape

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  14. p= citizens of the country
    s= citizens in the Midwest
    sm= stratified
    Bias= the people being polled could have relation to the winning candidate or are their friends.

    Lloyd's of London

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  15. Mr.Giomini,
    population= people living in the United States

    Sample= Midwest region residents

    Bias= If only taking people from the midwest could not give a perfect result the pollster needed to ask the whole country. There are also people in the midwest that can't vote.
    Zimms

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  16. POP-Voters

    SAMPLE-MID-WEST VOTERS

    S.M.-STATIFIED

    BIASED-THEY ONLY POLLED THE MIDWEST AND NOT THE MID-WEST AND NOT THE WHOLE NATION

    -MADAGASCAR

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  17. Population:Everyone in the U.S.

    Sample: The people that live in the Midwest

    SM:Stratified

    This is bias because if the canidate for the midwest is X than of corse more people will vote for there canidate so this is not acuat becuse on voting day all of America will be voting not just the midwest so X might not be as populare.

    Brock Lesner

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  18. population: The people who live in the country

    Sample: People chosen in the Midwest

    Sampling Method: Stratified

    Possible Bias: They did not ask most of the people in the country, only the Midwest. They should ask everybody for a nation wide vote.

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  19. Population- Midwest States
    Sample- Random People called in the Midwest
    Sampling Method- Stratified
    Biased- It could be biased because since they randomly selected people and called them, they could call kids our age. You would have to be at least 18 to vote. That would change the results.

    PISHNER

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  20. Population- USA
    Sample- Midwest states
    Sample Method- Stratified
    Bias- Some people might want different canidates

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  21. population: Everyone that can vote
    sample: people in the Midwest
    sampling method: stratified
    possible bias: People might be under the age of 18.

    Kauf

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  22. Dear Mr. Giomini,
    These are my answers to the question. Enjoy.

    Population: Anybody in the Midwest.
    Sample: People who are voting for the canidates.
    Sampling Method: stratified
    Possible Bias: Some people might have not decided who to vote for yet.

    Wikipedia

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  23. Population: Anyone who can vote.

    Sample: People in the Midwest.

    Sampling Method: Stratified.

    Possible Bias: the pollsters could have talked them into voting for Candidate X.

    From,
    Detroit

    PS: I got a magellan badge on Khan!!!!!

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  24. Population: Nation

    Sample: Midwest residents

    SM: Stratified

    Bias: The people who were asked were from where candidate X was. So they will probably vote for candidate X.

    -Peters

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  25. Population:People who live in the Country

    Sample:People who live in the Midwest

    Sampling method: Kids cant vote and some people just choose not to vote

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  26. Pop the nation
    Sample the Midwest people
    Sampling method stratified
    Bias some people were to young and can't vote

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  27. Population: people in the country

    Sample: Midwest States

    Sample Method: Stratified

    Bias: Yes, it could be bias because the poller may have known that the midwest may normally vote for a certain party.

    Cline Calvin

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  28. Mr. Giomini,

    Here is what I got for the problem-

    Population: People in the United States of America
    Sample: People who live in the Midwest
    Sample Method: Random
    Possible Bias: People who don't have home phones won't be included in the sample because they might just have cell phones.

    Sincerely,
    Serra The Terra




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  29. Population:The Midwest

    Sample:Random

    SM:Random

    Possible Bias:The people who took the poll might of known that people in the Midwest states like Candidate X better.

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  30. Population:People who live in the country
    Sample: People who live in the Midwest
    SM: Stratified
    Bias: People who live in other parts of the county may have had a different opinion
    Owen Forrey

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  31. Mr Giomini this is not for the question above, for number 21 for Math 6 homework the correct answer is 12b+4 you had 5 but 9-5 is 4 not 5
    Graney

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  32. Population:The Nation
    Sample: People In The Midwest
    Sample Method: Stratified
    Bias: The Midwest states may be know for vote for candidate X.

    -Stews

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  33. Population: The Nation
    Sample: People in the Midwest
    Sample Method: Stratified
    Bias: People in the other parts of the country could have a different opinion.

    -Jantzy

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  34. Population: The Nation
    Sample: People in the Midwest
    Sample Method: Stratified
    Bias: Only one canidate might have visited the midwest

    ReplyDelete