Last Updated: 08/2016 by Naima Bahaji

Math 120 Instructor File

Last updated: 08/2016 by Naima Bahaji

Committee members: Naima Bahaji, Dan Kernler. Contact any of us if you have any questions!

Textbook: Informed Decisions using Data, 5th. Edition, by Michael Sullivan, III

ISBN: 978-0-13-413542-3

Supplements:

 This book is published by Pearson and comes with access to MyStatLab when a new text is purchased through the bookstore.  By default, when students have access to MyStatLab, they also have access to StatCrunch, an online statistical tool. StatCrunch can be accessed through MyStatLab or directly at www.statcrunch.com (students and faculty should use the same login as through MyStatLab).

We recommend that you have some training on these systems before requiring them of your students.

 Instructor’s edition of the full textbook are available from Vicki. Additionally, you can get copies of the Instructors Solutions Manual.

 A copy of a guidebook for the Texas Instruments TI-83/84 calculators which Dan Kernler created for this course and Mth120 is available on the Mth102 Course page in the Math Department Handbook.

Technology Guidelines: Graphing Calculator such as TI-84 is required. Instruction should include use of the following features: creating and editing lists; calculating sample mean, median, and standard deviation; histograms; modified boxplots; normal probability plots. Instructors may prohibit use of the TI-89; Excel is optional.

Note to the instructors: Technology Guidelines: Graphing Calculator such as TI-84 is required.

Instruction should include use of the following features: creating and editing lists; calculating sample mean, median, and standard deviation; histograms; modified boxplots, normal probability plots.

Microsoft Excel or another computer software package (i.e. StatCrunch) is optional and may be used as a substitute for the calculator. Topics to be covered:

Chapter 1: cover all the sections

Chapter 4: cover 4.1-4.4; 4.5 is optional

Chapter 5: cover 5.1-5.6, 5.5 can be covered with 6.2; 5.7 is optional

Chapter 6: cover 6.1 and 6.2; 6.3 is optional

Chapter 9: 9.1-9.4; 9.5 is optional

Chapter 11: cover all sections

Chapter 13: cover 13.1

We expect everyone to give a cumulative final over the last two hours (possibly over two days)