About Brian Riley

2013-2014 is my 19th year teaching in the Dearborn Public Schools. Graduate of Michigan State University. B.S. Civil Engineering. Graduate of California State University. Secondary Teaching Certificate Graduate of Wayne State University. M. A. Sports Administration. Prior to Teaching at the Early College I taught for 13 years at Fordson High School where I coached baseball for 16 years. Born and raised in Rochester, Michigan Graduate of Rochester Adams High School

Corrections to Review Answers

The following corrections should be made to the answer sheet provided for the Probability and Statistics Review:

3 (c)  120   (this answer was omitted)

4(b)  100/900 (correction)

4(c)  1,247,400 (correction)

11 (c)  Should read something along these lines:

“25% of 1st hour scored higher than 72 and 50% of 2nd hour scored below 72.”

13 (i) 98.30%

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems from Chapter 7 that may be on the Final Exam.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Sec 12-5, Sample Proportion and Margin of Error.

Hwk #31 is due tomorrow:

Sec 12-5, pages 680-682, problems 2, 10-13, 17, 31

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Bellwork 5-28-14

Bellwork Answers 5-28-14

Notes 5-28-14

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Bellwork reviewed problems involving a Normal Distribution.

Hwk #30 is due today.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 12-5, Working with Samples.  The concepts of Sample Proportion and Margin of Error were introduced.

Hwk #31 will be due on Thursday, May 29:

Sec 12-5, pages 680-682, problems 2, 10-13, 17, 31

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 5-27-14

Bellwork Answers 5-27-14

Notes 5-27-14

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Bellwork reviewed answering questions using a Normal Distribution (Sec 12-7).

Hwk #29 is due today.

The remainder of the period we discussed using a Normal Distribution Table in addition to using a Normal Distribution (Bell-shaped Curve) to find percent of data within a range of values.

Hwk #30 is due on Tuesday, May 27:

Sec 12-7, pages 695-696, problems 9-16, 22, 24, 27.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 5-21-14

Bellwork Answers 5-21-14

Notes 5-21-14

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Bellwork reviewed Standard Deviation and z-scores.

Hwk #28 is due today.

The remainder of the period we finished our dicussion on Standard Deviation and z-scores from Sec 12-4.  We then began discussing Normal Distributions (Sec 12-7).

Hwk #29 is due tomorrow:

Sec 12-4, pages 672-673, problems 3, 4, 10-13, 16, 19

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:
Bellwork 5-20-14

Bellwork Answers 5-20-14

Notes 5-20-14

Monday, May 19, 2014

Bellwork reviewed finding Mean, Median, Mode, Range, and Interquartile Range, and using a Box-and-Whisker Plot to compare two sets of data.

The remainder of the period we finished our discussion on Percentiles (Sec 12-3).  We then began our discussion on Standard Deviation (Sec 12-4).

Hwk #28 is due tomorrow:

Sec 12-3, pages 664-665, problems 1, 2, 8-11, 16-18.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 5-19-14

Bellwork Answers 5-19-14

Notes 5-19-14

Friday, May 16, 2014

Bellwork had students make and interpret two Box-and-Whisker plots.

The remainder of the period we continued our discussion on Sec 12-3, Analying Data using Measures of Central Tendancy, Box-and-Whisker-Plots, and Percentiles.

Hwk #28 was assigned and will be due on Tuesday, May 20:
Sc 12-3, pages 664-665, problems 1, 2, 8-11, 16-18.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes/examples from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 5-16-14

Bellwork Answers 5-16-14

Notes 5-16-14