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SCHEDULE FOR MATH 123
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

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Dates	In Class Assignments	Due Dates for Outside Class Assignments
08 / 31 – Mon (DAY 1)	Class Exercises 1-1, 1-2, 1-3
09 / 02 – Wed (DAY 2)	Class Exercises 2-1, 2-2, 2-3	Read Unit 1 and Unit 2 Complete Class Exercise 1-2 Do part (a) of Class Exercise 2-1
09 / 04 – Fri (DAY 3)	Class Exercises 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1, 3-2	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 1 Do parts (a) to (f) of Class Exercise 2-4 (Start bringing your TI-84 (or TI-83) calculator to class)
09 / 07 – Mon (DAY 4)	Class Exercises 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 2 Read Unit 3 Complete Class Exercise 2-5, if necessary Lab#0
09/ 09 – Wed (DAY 5)	Class Exercises 3-7, 4-1, 4-2	Complete Class Exercise 3-3, if necessary Read Unit 4 Lab#1
09 / 11 – Fri (DAY 6)	Class Exercises 4-3, 4-4, 5-1	Create the TI-84 calculator lists needed for Class Exercise 5-1 Complete Class Exercises 4-1 and 4-2, if necessary Lab#2 to be used with Text Exercise 3-6 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 3 Read Unit 5
09 / 14 – Mon (DAY 7)	Class Exercises 5-2, 6-1	Complete Class Exercise 4-3, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 4 Read Unit 6
09 / 16 – Wed (DAY 8)	Class Exercises 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 6-6, 7-1a-g	Complete Class Exercises 5-2 and 6-1, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 5 Read Unit 7 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!)
09 / 18 – Fri (DAY 9)	Class Exercise 7-1	Complete Class Exercise 6-2, if necessary Even numbers in Text Exercise Set 6
09 / 21 – Mon (DAY 10)	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.
09 / 23 – Wed (DAY 11)	Class Exercises 7-2, 7-3, 7-4, 8-1, 8-2	Read Unit 8 Create or obtain the TI-84 calculator lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 9
09 / 25 – Fri (DAY 12)	Class Exercises 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4	Complete Class Exercise 8-2, if necessary Lab#3 to be used with Text Exercises 7-10 and 7-12 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 7 Read Unit 9
09 / 28 – Mon (DAY 13)	Class Exercises 9-4, 10-1, 10-2	Complete Class Exercises 9-2, 9-3, and 9-4, if necessary Lab#4 to be used with Text Exercise 8-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 8 Read Unit 10
09 / 30 – Wed (DAY 14)	Class Exercises 11-1, 11-2, 11-3	Complete Class Exercise 10-2, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 9 Read Unit 11 Do Class Exercises 11-1ab, 11-2ab
10 / 02 – Fri (DAY 15)	Class Exercises 11-4, 11-5, 12-1	Lab#5 to be used with Text Exercise 10-10 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 10 Read Unit 12
10 / 05 – Mon (DAY 16)	Class Exercises 12-2, 13-1, 13-2, 13-3	(Be sure to get a copy of the tables in Appendix A here, if you don’t already have a copy) Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 11 Read Unit 13
10 / 07 – Wed (DAY 17)	Class Exercises 14-1abcd	Lab#6 to be used with Text Exercise 12-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 12
10 / 09 – Fri (DAY 18)	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.
10 / 12 – Mon (DAY 19)	Class Exercises 14-1defghij	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 13 Read Unit 14
10 / 14 – Wed (DAY 20)	Class Exercises 15-1, 15-2, 15-3	Submit Part 1 of the Project Do Class Exercise 14-1opq for submission Optional: Class Exercise 14-2klmn Read Unit 15
10 / 16 – Fri (DAY 21)	Class Exercises 16-1abcdefghijklmnop	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 14 Read Unit 16
10 / 19 – Mon (DAY 22)	Class Exercises 16-1qrst, 17-1, 17-2, 17-3ab	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 15 Optional: Class Exercise 16-2
10 / 21 – Wed (DAY 23)	Class Exercises 17-3, 18-1, 18-2	Complete Class Exercise 17-2, if necessary 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
10 / 23 – Fri (DAY 24)	Class Exercises 17-4, 18-3	Complete Class Exercise 17-3, if necessary Even-numbers except #17-8 (which is optional) in Text Exercise Set 17 Read Unit 18
10 / 26 – Mon (DAY 25)	Class Exercises 19-1	Complete Class Exercise 18-3, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 18 Read Unit 19
10 / 28 – Wed (DAY 26)	Class Exercises 20-1, 20-2, 20-3, 21-1	Complete Class Exercise 19-1, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 19 Read Unit 20
11 / 02 – Mon (DAY 27)	Class Exercises 21-2	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 20 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 21
11 / 04 – Wed (DAY 28)	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.
11 / 06 – Fri (DAY 29)	Class Exercises 22-1, 21-3	Submit Part 2 of the Project Read Unit 21 Create or obtain the lists needed on the TI-84 calculator for Class Exercises – Unit 22
11 / 09 – Mon (DAY 30)	Class Exercises 22-2, 23-1, 23-2, 23-3, 23-4	Complete Class Exercise 21-3, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 21 Read Unit 22
11 / 11 – Wed (DAY 31)	Class Exercises 24-1, 24-2	Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 22 Read Unit 23 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 24
11 / 13 – Fri (DAY 32)	Class Exercises 24-3, 24-4	Complete Class Exercise 24-2, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 23 Read Unit 24
11 / 16 – Mon (DAY 33)	Class Exercises 25-1, 26-1a	Complete Class Exercise 24-4, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 24 Read Unit 25 Make sure your TI-84 calculator has the lists needed for Class Exercises – Unit 26
11 / 18 – Wed (DAY 34)	Class Exercises 26-1, 26-2, 26-3, 26-4, 26-5	Lab#7 to be used with Text Exercise 25-6 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 25 Read Unit 26
11 / 20 – Fri (DAY 35)	Class Exercises 27-1, 27-2	Complete Class Exercise 26-5, if necessary Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 26 Read Unit 27
11 / 23 – Mon (DAY 36)	Class Exercise 28-1	Lab#8 to be used with Text Exercise 27-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 27 Read Unit 28
11 / 30 – Mon (DAY 37)	Check homework and review for upcoming exam	Lab#9 to be used with Text Exercise 28-4 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 28
12 / 02 – Wed (DAY 38)	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 #20 to #26, the odd numbers in Exercise Sets 20 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.
12 / 04 – Fri (DAY 39)	Class Exercises 29-1, 29-2	Submit Part 3 of the Project Read Unit 29
12 / 07 – Mon (DAY 40)	Class Exercises 30-1, 30-2	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 Read Unit 30
12 / 09 – Wed (DAY 41)	Class Exercises 31-1	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
12 / 11 – Fri (DAY 42)	Questions concerning the final exam	Submit Part 4 of the Project Lab#14 to be used with Text Exercise 31-2 Even-numbers in Text Exercise Set 31
12 / 14 – 12 / 18	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. A special tutor schedule for Final Exam Week will be posted before the end of the last week of classes. 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.

“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