(28) DUE: Tuesday, November 4

• Write up your simulation of McCain vs. Obama using your pollsters percentages.
• Pollsters percentages and date of poll.
• Simulate polling 100 voters 100 times.
• Make histogram of your 100 results.
  
• Calculate mean and standard deviation of your 100 trials of percentage wins by McCain and by Obama.
• Conclusion

Let's see who gets closest!

(27) DUE: Monday, November 3

• Complete pollster graph through November 2nd

• Make sure you have the most recent poll.

• Complete swing state sheet and have the three most recent polls.

• Extra credit: Watch NUMB3RS on Channel 7 10 - 11PM on Friday night.
• One sentence on the plot.
• Write about the mathematics used.
  

(9) DUE: Friday, October 31

• Sequence, Fractal, and Chaos test
• Includes arithmetic, geometric, Fibonacci, and imaginary sequences
• Includes explicit, recursive, and iterative functions
• Includes sequence and iteration notation
  

(8) DUE: Wednesday, October 30

• Complete Sierpinski Triangle made from pascal's Triangle

(7) DUE: Wednesday, October 29

• Watch NOVA on Channel 2 at 8 - 9 pm
• Take notes!
  

(6) DUE: Tuesday, October 28

• Play Chaos Game at http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS
  

(5) DUE: Monday, October 27

• Bring in status of your swing state (at least three polls)

• Add data to your pollster graph
• Fill in more information about your pollster
• Final report on your pollster and data through election day is due November 5!

• Students without signed field trip slip will not be going to BU, but will stay in class and due sheet work!
  

(4) DUE: Friday, October 24

• Complete sheets (5) and (6)
  

(3) DUE: Thursday, October 23

• Sequence Sheets (3) and (4)
  

(2) DUE: Wednesday, October 22

• Arithmetic sequences: recursive and explicit
  
• Complete sheets (1) and (2)
  

(1) DUE: Tuesday, October 21

• Sequence Sheet handed out in class
• Signed permission to go on BU field trip
  

(26) DUE: Monday, October 20

• SAT Questions Test
• Study the SAT questions that we have done in class
• 36 will be on the test
  

(25) DEU: Friday, October 17

• Read Gallup article on the 20 questions a journalist should ask about a poll
• Highlight key thoughts
• Be prepared to present on Friday.
  

(24) DUE: Thursday, October 16

• Watch presidential debate
• Divide paper into 4 quadrants
• Titles
• Obama: what you liked and what you did not like that he said
• McCain: what you liked and what you did not like that he said

(23) DUE: Wednesday, October 15

• Normal and polling test
• Empirical/simulation: table, x-bar and s
• Theoretical: trees, table, and mu and sigma
• Article on normal distributions
• Articles on polling
  

(22) DUE: Tuesday, October 14

• Pollster and Poll Project

• Type up information on pollster sheet
• Who is this pollster?
• What question did they ask?
• What else do they ask in polls?
• How large a sample size?
• Margin of error?
• Anything else.
• Make a very neat graph of your data. Show:
  
• Important events
• McCain, Obama, Other
• 50% line
  
• Margin of error as shaded area

Heads Up: Normal TEST on Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(21) DUE: Friday, October 10

• Read the article Precisely Wrong vs. Approximately Right
  
• Answer the questions on the reverse side.
• This will take you about 45 minutes. Take the time. This is good stuff.
  

(20) DUE: Thursday, Octrober 9

• Read and underline the most important items in the 8-page article 20 Questions a Journalist should ask about polls.
• What does it say about margin of error?
• What does it say about polling methods and their efficacy?
• A sample is ONLY reasonable if the respondents are picked by the _________ .
  

(19) DUE: Wednesday, October 8

• Listen to the Presidential debate tonight.
• Write down three statements that you support from McCain and from Obama
• Write down three statements that you don't support from McCain and from Obama
• Womever you supported before the debate, your opinion of their being a better president has:
• Increased
• Decreased
• Stayed the same