Sam's Blog

Yo! Hanukah baby: You guys got great feedback from your sub. I don't know if you knew this, but having a final exam was determined by how you behaved for the sub! So to say thank you for your great behavior, your final will not be a test. Onto the Feltron. Here are the requirements, sorry they weren't on the blog earlier: Also, Spotify users: check out Year in Music . It automatically gives you great data: top tracks this year, top artists, to albums, total minutes spent listening to music... very useful! You have till the end of class on Tuesday to finish, and I have a good feeling that you will all finish with plenty of time and do great work.

Poppy's first GIF! I will return, with tons of pictures of her, soon! In class and for homework,work on your Feltrons - figure out what kind of charts you want to make, and how you will present them. THEY ARE DUE ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK! YOU CAN DO THIS! Here are some charts I have made for my Samtron 2015:

After Issy determines who did their homework, you guys will spend the class working on Independent Probability . While that is happening, I'd like you to also make a spreadsheet and start entering your data in it. (Iggy, Dash, Dylan and Matthew should be able to show you how). Your only homework over the next week and a half is to: Keep track of your data and enter it into your spreadsheet. After this week and a half break, you will need to send me a spreadsheet of your data. Then we will work on graphing it in interesting ways, and looking for insights in it. (You can start doing that over break if you are the type that puts work off).

Marcelle and I had a baby yesterday!!! It seems that I will be needed at home for a bit. I will be back as soon as I can... but in the meantime, you lucky kids have Issy subbing. Today's schedule 8:30-8:35 Probably get dismissed from circle late 8:35-8:50 Discuss homework ("talk to your parents/family about a time they had to make an important decision and probability/statistics played a big part") 8:50-9:25 Work on: Simple Probability Adding Probability Watch the videos, work in pairs, or ask Issy as-needed. It's homework if you don't finish 9:25 Straighten up, dismissal

I heard lots of complaints about long-term projects in Spanish. Well... We have one in math. Please don't forget about it, and start imagining how you will graph the data you've been collecting. Today's discussion was really good. Turns out, the ECV didn't work - Poppy refuses to turn. It was really wild to watch her fight back against being rotated (on the ultrasound). Finally, as we said in class, your homework is to talk to your parents/family about a time they had to make an important decision and probability/statistics played a big part : medical, financial, school-related are some ideas.

sorry this is late. I was asleep, fighting this fever, and then Marcelle had to go to the doctor all day and it was a bit scary. But everything is ok. Here is the assignment (aren't you glad you already wrote it down like I told you to??) Khan academy exercises: Comparing probabilities And Experimental probability

Let's play a game: There is one weighted coin; the rest are fair. You have to figure out which one is unfair... to leave the classroom. Good luck! Homework Flip a coin 100 times. Record the sequence of flips, eg, H, T, T, H... Count  He number of heads and number of tails. What was your longest streak?