Weekly Agendas & Announcements
Week 10 Announcements
Thursday announcements
- HW 08 due today
- HW 09 due Tuesday, 3 problems, graded on completion, solutions posted
- Lab 07 due Saturday, no lab due next week
Tuesday’s exam:
- In-class only
- 1-page cheat sheet allowed (front & back), no formulas will be projected during exam
- Will have test corrections again
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 9 Announcements
Tuesday announcements
Due Thursday: HW 07 (a & b only on 4.30)
Quiz Thursday: 3.9, 4.2 - 4.4
- Looking ahead:
- Exam 2 is two weeks from today
- Will finish Chapter 4 next week
- Reminder of office hours & Piazza, as content gets more challenging
- Mondays 3 - 4:30 (Zoom)
- Tuesdays 11 - 12 (next three Tuesdays, after that back to 1:15 - 2:15)
- Thursdays 11 - 12
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 8 Announcements
Thursday announcements
- Quiz to start class today
- HW 06 due today, Lab 06 & Annotations 06 due Saturday
- On Lab 06, it refers to textbook problems from HW5, but it should actually say HW6
- HW 07 is a little longer than some (12 problems), but no lab due next week
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 7 Announcements
Tuesday announcements
- Hand in annotated test corrections now if you have them
- Will have take-home and test corrections finalized by Thursday
- HW 05, Lab 05, Annotations 05 due this week
- Today: more discrete distributions!
- Quiz Thursday over HW 05 material (Binomial)
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 6 Announcements
Tuesday announcements
Turn in take-home exam (if you haven’t already submitted on Blackboard)
Exam results on in-class: Median 85%, Average 87%
- Annotated test corrections
- can earn up to 1/4 of points back on in-class exam
- on SEPARATE sheet of paper, provide three things for each problem you want points back on:
- articulation of your mistake
- correct solution
- something you could put on your cheat sheet in future and/or a study strategy that would help you get a question like this correct on future exam
- hard copy + original exam due in class next Tuesday
- can seek help from others and/or in office hours. Usual AI policy applies (i.e. cite it)
Nothing due this week! HW 05 & Lab 05 for next week have been posted
- No class (or student hours) on Thursday!
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 5 Announcements
Tuesday announcements
- HW 04 due on Thursday, but solutions posted, graded on completion (relevant practice for the exam)
- Lab 03 due tonight (instead of last Saturday)
- Lab 04 due Saturday
- No annotations due this week
- Student hours are 1:15 - 2:15 on Thursday
About the exam
- In-class exam on Thursday
- Seven questions, 15 parts total
- 88 points
- Calculator + one 8.5x11 (double-sided) “cheat sheet” allowed.
- Exam 1 Review packet is a good place to start
- Include practice problems!
- Annotated test corrections to earn 1/4 of points back after graded
- Take-home exam handed out Thursday
- 12 points
- Will ask you to write a few T/F questions and choose 3 (out of 6) “meta-cognitive” reflection questions to respond to
- AI is NOT allowed on this assignment (because I’m asking for YOUR personal reflections), nor is collaboration with other people
- Due next Tuesday, but can request extension to Thursday if needed (intended to take much less time that typical homework assignment)
A few problem solving tips
Remember you can re-write a probability as the sum of intersections: $P(A) = P(A \cap B) + P(A \cap B’)$
- Remember there are always two ways to re-write an intersection in terms of conditional probabilities
P(A B) and P(B A) both have $P(A \cap B)$ on the numerator - can use that to reverse the conditional probability
- Draw pictures to help you (re-)write probabilities as symbols
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 4 Announcements
Thursday announcements
- Quiz 2 to start class today
- HW 04 & Lab 04 posted - prioritize the HW (Lab not due until after exam)
- Practice Exam posted
- Will spend most of Tuesday reviewing
- also encouraged to come to student hours next week,
- and/or post questions on Piazza as they arise
Tuesday announcements
- Solutions posted for HW, quiz, group work
- Lab 03 has been posted - extended due date to next Tuesday
- Quiz 1: Avg 86, Median 90. Remember I drop two lowest scores at the end :)
- Exam next Thursday
- Exam Review packet available today
- Practice exam posted by Thursday
- will review on Tuesday
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 3 Announcements
Thursday announcements
- Quiz to start class today (10 minutes)
- Lab 02 & Annotations due Saturday
- HW 03 posted, but Lab 03 will be delayed (tied to activity bumped to next Tuesday)
Tuesday announcements
- First quiz will be at beginning of class on Thursday (2.1 - 2.6)
- HW 02 due Thursday
- Lab 02 & Annotations 03 due Saturday
- Will (hopefully) start Ch 3 on Thursday - do you want me to print the notes for you?
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 2 Announcements
Tuesday announcements
First in-class quiz will be on Thursday. Closed book, closed notes.
HW 01 due Thursday 2:30pm
Lab 01 & Annotations 02 due Saturday 11:59pm
Thanks for good engagement on first set of Annotations - reading your thoughts is one of my favorite parts of my job :)
- Settings issue on my part, so you weren’t able to see others’ comments right away. This should be fixed now.
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL) What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- (OPTIONAL) Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. {: .fs-5 }
Week 1 Announcements
Thursday announcements
First Perusall reading annotation due Saturday.
Will be working in RStudio at the end of class today - make sure you’ve downloaded the software.
HW 01 and Lab 01 have been posted - due next Thursday & Saturday, respectively.
Syllabus highlights / questions
What to put on your attendance notecard
- Name
- Date
- (OPTIONAL but ENCOURAGED)
- What was the “muddiest point” from today’s class? I.e., what was confusing or unclear during today’s class? What are you still grappling with?
- Is there anything going on in your life that you’d like me to know about? E.g., anxiety, upcoming interview, illness in the family, etc. I’m a praying person :) and can help point you to support resources if/when helpful