MATH 1342 - Elementary Statistics

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Instructor: Chasity Klingler (Curriculum Vitae)

Email: cklingler@panola.edu

Phone: 903.693.2071

Office Hours: MTWR 1:00-3:00

Class section meeting time: ONLINE

 

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Catalog Description: Collection, analysis, presentation and interpretation of data, and probability. Analysis includes descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Use of appropriate technology is recommended.

Lecture hours = 3, Lab hours = 0

Prerequisites: TSI Math Complete.

Semester Credit Hours: 3

Lecture Hours per Week: 3

Lab Hours per Week: 0

Contact Hours per Semester: 48

State Approval Code: 27.0501.51 19

 

Course Requirements:

• Homework/Quizzes:  Homework will be due before each exam. Homework is important for the students understanding of the knowledge of the concepts taught. No late work will be accepted.
• Examinations: There will be an exam at the conclusion of each unit and a comprehensive final exam. There will be no make-up exams. The Final Exam will replace your lowest exam grade.
• Work must be shown for ALL problems or no credit will be received.

The Mathematics department does not accept late work.

Exams:

Exam 1 (Ch. 1 & 2)

Exam 2 (Ch. 3 & 4))

Exam 3 (Ch. 5, 6 & 7)

Exam 4 (Ch. 8, 9 & 12)

Final Exam

 

Course Grade:

Assignment Weights

Class Participation                                                       10%

Homework/Quiz Average                                        20%

Exams                                                                                   50%

Comprehensive Final Exam                                     20%

 

Letter Grades for the Course will be assigned as follows:

A: 90 < Average < 100

B: 80 < Average < 90

C: 70 < Average < 80

D: 60 < Average < 70

F: 00 < Average < 60

Texts, Materials, and Supplies:

• Textbook:  Introductory Statistics by OpenStax, 2016, iBook ISBN-13: 978-1-938168-29-1 (No Purchase Necessary)
• Canvas, StatCrunch (No Purchase Necessary)
• TI-83 or TI-84+ (Optional)

 

Major Assignments/Assessment:

Faculty may assign both in- and out-of-class activities to evaluate students' knowledge and abilities. Faculty may choose from – but are not limited to -- the following methods attendance, class preparedness and participation. Collaborative learning projects, exams/tests/quizzes, homework, internet, library assignments, readings, research papers, scientific observations, student-teacher conferences, and written assignments.

Other:

• Courses conducted via video conferencing may be recorded and shared for instructional purposes by the instructor.
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• If any student in this class has special classroom or testing needs because of a physical learning or emotional condition, please contact the ADA Student Coordinator in Support Services located in the Administration Building or go to http://www.panola.edu/student-success/disability-support-services/ for more information.
• Withdrawing from a course is the student’s responsibility. Students who do not attend class and who do not withdraw will receive the grade earned for the course.
• Student Handbook, The Pathfinder: http://www.panola.edu/student-success/documents/pathfinder.pdf

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Student Absence due to Religious Observance

Students who anticipate being absent from class due to a religious observance are requested to inform the instructor of such absences by the second class meeting of the semester.

Student Absence for School-Sponsored Events and Activities

If you intend to be absent for a school-sponsored event or activity, you must notify the instructor at least two weeks prior to the date of the planned absence. At that time the instructor will set a date and time when make-up assignments will be completed.

Student Standards of Academic Conduct

Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who engages in scholastic dishonesty, including, but not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.

(i) “Cheating” includes, but is not limited to:

• copying from another student’s test paper;
• using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
• failure to comply with instructions given by the person administering the test;
• possession during a test of materials which are not authorized by the person giving the test, such as class notes or specifically designed “crib notes”. The presence of textbooks constitutes a violation if they have been specifically prohibited by the person administering the test;
• using, buying, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an unadministered test, test key, homework solution, or computer program;
• collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test or other assignment without authority;
• discussing the contents of an examination with another student who will take the examination;
• divulging the contents of an examination, for the purpose of preserving questions for use by another, when the instructor has designated that the examination is not to be removed from the examination room or not to be returned or to be kept by the student;
• substituting for another person, or permitting another person to substitute for oneself to take a course, a test, or any course-related assignment;
• paying or offering money or other valuable thing to, or coercing another person to obtain an unadministered test, test key, homework solution, or computer program, or information about an unadministered test, test key, homework solution or computer program;
• taking, keeping, misplacing, or damaging the property of Panola College, or of another, if the student knows or reasonably should know that an unfair academic advantage would be gained by such conduct; and,
• misrepresenting facts, including providing false grades or resumes, for the purpose of obtaining an academic or financial benefit or injuring another student academically or financially.

(ii) “Plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the submission of it as one’s own academic work offered for credit.

(iii) “Collusion” includes, but is not limited to, the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing academic assignments offered for credit or collaboration with another person to commit a violation of any section of the rules on scholastic dishonesty.

 

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• eLearning Department.
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• Library Services
• Academic/Tutoring Support
• Disability Services