I'm not in class today

A message from Mr. Babel to the most amazing second period class (at East Leyden, in room 139, in the school year 2011-12) in the universe.




You may or may not have noticed, but I'm not in class with you today.  I have a meeting that I needed to attend.  Thank you to Ms. Kinnane for subbing.

1.  Your task for the day.  Continue with the Normal model and z-scores.  I've posted comments on your work on the wiki, for many groups that will serve as a guide to how to move forward.

• First after you and your teams check out the wiki, I want you to take about 5 minutes talking to someone from another team.  See what they have learned, share what you have learned.  

• Then comeback to your groups and share what you found out from another group.

2.  You have a worksheet of problems, can you answer those yet?  If not continue to look for ways to do so. 

•  You may need to google "normalcdf" TI-83 Normal model.  This could help with finding specific percentiles.  
• Or the ti-83 lab that I posted yesterday could be helpful.

3.  Here is the full topic list that I posted on Tuesday.  

• What are z-scores?  How are they used?
• How does rescaling data affect shape, center and spread?
• What is a Normal Model?
• What about the Standard Normal Model?
• When can we use the Normal Model?  Under what conditions?
• What does the 68-95-99.7 Rule mean?

How are you doing on this list? Does your wiki address all of these questions?

4. Take a quiz that will be emailed to you in about 15 minutes (not a real, quiz more of a spot-check) I just want to see how you are doing, it isn't for a grade.

5. Have a nice day

6. Did you notice the phone number on the left side of the screen? (Ok fine my left your right) I set up this google voice number so that you can text me when you have questions. I'm old, I email. Your young you text. This can help bridge that gap. Your texts will come to my email, and my email response will be texted back to you. If you call that number it would ring my office phone. But keep in mind you will need to identify yourself by name in the text message. You have my permission to text me today during class (make sure Ms. Kinnane reads this so you don't get in trouble). I will try to respond from my meeting (but only if it doesn't cause a distraction, because that would be rude of me).

7. You should be continuing to work on things outside of class, I should be seeing posts on the wiki, or comments on the blog, and as of today texts from you.

8. Check out my blog post from yesterday, some awesome student created videos from some NJ stats students. Amazing work by these students.