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You're pretty much done! Go you! You just need to take this practice final, then the real final. If you haven't yet, you need to turn in your Feltron. If you didn't request an extension, you should still reach out and and check in with me and give me an update about when you will turn it in. Practice Final Here

Today you will keep working on your Feltron. As a reminder, if you need an extension, send me an email. However, even if you get an extension, make sure to, from a spreadsheet, know how to make bar, line, pie and histogram charts, and compute the minimum, maximum, average, and median. So, maybe things are going well. Maybe you are struggling to make enough charts. If you are, let me assure you, you can totally do it. If you think you can't make enough charts, be sure to make one chart for each thing you measured. For example, if you measured "Avocados eaten", "water drank" and "steps taken" you should make a chart of date/avocados, date/water and date/steps. You could also do date/avocados/water and date/water/steps (and date/avocados/steps). If you really feel stuck, look at the second trimester Feltrons . Also, check out the post I made with how to videos . Finally, I made these new videos for more help:

Keep working on those Feltrons. Think about what fonts you want to use (pick 2) and the color scheme. Picking fewer colors usually makes it look professional. If you can get a non-white background with white writing to work, it looks good.

Today your one goal is to work on your Feltrons. You want to make as much progress as possible. Your goal is to send them to me by Friday evening. Sorry I am not there, I am in Arkansas to see my little brother-in-law graduate high school. I will be back tomorrow. If you feel confident just going to work, then do that. By "do work," I mean make the charts and write about them; also calculate the mean, median and mode of every value you can... also the max and min. If you need help, I made a series of videos leading you through the most common things.

Status check Homework Feltron Update - there's a final (Post-Feltron) Birthday problem Homework How many people do there need to be in a room for it to be the case that at least two MUST share a birthday?

Starting with Venn Diagrams, do Independent and Dependent Probability

We talked about the basics of probability. So for classwork, we did this . Do it if you haven't yet. For homework, finish statistical studies if you haven't yet. Have a good weekend!

Keep working on  Statistical Studies topic !

Ok, today didn't go exactly as planned. If you saw the blog post I had up planned for today... we will get to that, but I incorrectly estimated how long some work would take you. Not your fault. You guys just move so fast through most material! You are working on the  Statistical Studies topic  on Khan Academy. It is not easy. That is okay. You don't have to get frustrated, or discouraged, or stressed. If it takes longer than I thought it would, I'll give you more time. Some good insights from the classwork: Go straight to the exercises, but go back to the videos if you are stuck If the videos feel too long, you can speed up playback (in the options menu, click the gear button). 1.25x isn't even noticeable. 1.5x is, but if you listen for a while you get used to it and can switch to 2x An "experiment" involves splitting a subset of the population you are looking at into two groups: one called the "control", who don't do anything diff

Do you have your tickets...  to the gun show? #flexin #doyouevenliftbro Please complete this to show you did your homework: So, let's talk about what makes this project hard: actually collecting data. It's not hard, but somehow, doing it every day is hard. It's easy to miss a day... then two... then all the sudden, you have missed a bunch, and it's scary and you don't want to think about it, so you don't do it. So we are going to preempt all that by putting some work in today to make it hard to forget. First, we will make a Google form.  I started it for you, all you is copy it and add your 4 variables . Once you have that, you are going to use a cool feature of Google Sheets to have google email you this form every day. The form will be in the email itself, so all you have to do is open the email, fill out the form, and hit enter. Here are the instructions to follow . Don't be intimidated! You just have to copy and paste some code, but if y