Math
Department Course Outline
Syllabus part 1: Course information page, for all of Tim Pilachowski’s sections
(textbook, academic honesty and grading information)
Syllabus, part 2: (important dates, including exams)
Course schedule, section WB13, Summer 2021 session I (online class)
Course
schedule, section WB21, Summer 2021 session II (online class)
information about homework, including WebAssign
a) I will create videos for each topic and publish them in the Files area of the section’s ELMS page for you to download. (My plan is to split each topic into 15-minute segments, and publish them on ELMS at least two days before my live session - see 3b) below.) I recommend that you download and view these prior to the live sessions. One advantage to videos is that, unlike an in-person Lecture, you can rewind and watch sections over again. The disadvantage is that I can’t answer questions while you’re watching.
b) The dates on the course schedule are the days on which I will hold an online session from 11 am to noon, each class day Monday through Friday using Zoom from within ELMS. The Zoom area of the section’s ELMS page will have a link that will allow you to join the session. This live session will be your chance to ask questions – I can go back to anything in the video Lecture that you want to ask about.
The textbook is bundled with WebAssign access in the UM campus bookstore and includes access to an e-version of the text. If you purchase a stand-alone WebAssign access code either from the campus bookstore or directly from Cengage, you will also get access to an e-book version of the text.
Also, the text (without
WA access) will be available at the reserve desk in McKeldin
Library, where you can check one out for four hours at a time.
You should only need to purchase the enhanced version WebAssign access code once – as long as you are using the same text, your access code should be recognized, whether you re-take Stat 400 or move on to Stat 401.
For Summer 2021, online tutoring may be
available through
Office of Multi-Cultural Student Education (OMSE).
The hand-in homework assignments will be due by 11 am on the dates indicated in the File “Stat400 00.4 Hand-in Homework Summer 2021”, which can be found in the Files section of the course ELMS page. You will submit your homework online, in the Assignments section of the course ELMS page.
I will not accept any late submissions for hand-in homework.
hand-in homework #1 – from supplement identifying permutations and combinations, example K parts a through d
For this assignment, you must show your work. Simply writing an answer is insufficient.
hand-in homework #2 – from supplement conditional probability and Bayes' Theorem, Example 3 question 3-10 parts a through c
[not questions 3-3 through 3-9; just the 10th question 3-10]
For this assignment, you must show your work. Simply writing an answer is insufficient.
hand-in homework #3 – section 3.2 #26
IMPORTANT: Some printings of the text have an incomplete picture for 3.2 #26.
The picture should have both diagonals in the square.
That is, O should be connected to A and to B and to C and to D.
Hint: Write out the sample space for each part.
For this assignment, you must show your work. Simply writing an answer is insufficient.
hand-in homework #4 – from supplement 5.4 supplement Central Limit Theorem, homework exercises 2 (all parts) and 5 (all parts).
For this assignment, you must show your work. Simply writing an answer is insufficient.
hand-in homework #5 – from Lecture outline Lecture 6.1c proportion, homework exercises 1 (all parts) and 2 (all parts).
For this assignment, you must show your work. Simply writing an answer is insufficient.
In general, WebAssign will be due by 11 am on the dates indicated. You will submit your homework online, on the WebAssign page.
Click this link for information about homework, including WebAssign.
Testbank archives of past exams Search the testbank for STAT400. Some, but not all of the Exams in the testbank are identified by Instructor. You may have to resort to trial and error in finding the Exams I have posted. Some Exams also have solutions posted – most do not.
For Stat 400 Exams I have in the testbank, Spring 2012 was a 50-minute Exam, Spring 2013 & Fall 2013 were 75-minute Exams. For Summer 2021, you will have 75 minutes - 50 minutes to answer questions with 25 minutes extra for entering answers into the Quizzes section in ELMS.
All tests are in Acrobat (.pdf) format, and many print well. For ones that don’t, you can choose the “Select Image” tool, highlight each page as a block, copy it, paste it as a picture into a blank word-processing page, and print from there.
Math Success walk-in tutoring (may not be available for Summer 2021 classes)
Office of Multi-Cultural Student Education (OMSE)
Pilachowski's Rules of Mathematics
Need a reminder about basics? What Is a Fraction?, Fraction Computation
Lecture 2.1, Lecture 2.2, Lecture 2.3, Lecture 2.4, Lecture 2.5, including chapter 2 comprehensive, Chapter 2 summary – things you should know
supplements: sections 2.1-2.2 set theory and Venn diagrams,
sections 2.3-2.4 tree diagrams and calculating probabilities,
section 2.3 identifying permutations and combinations,
(solutions made available in the Files section of ELMS after homework is handed in)
sections 2.1-2.5 conditional probability and Bayes' Theorem,
(solutions
made available in the Files section of ELMS after homework is handed in)
Lecture 3.1-3.2, Lecture 3.3, Lecture 3.4, Lecture 3.5, Lecture 3.6a, Lecture 3.6b, Chapter 3 summary – things you should know
Lecture 4.1, Lecture 4.2, Chapter 4.1-4.2 summary – things you should know
Lecture 4.3, Lecture 4.4, Chapter 4 summary – things you should know
Lecture chapter 5 preparation,
supplement: practice in evaluating double integrals – Chapter 5 preparation - supplement
Lecture 5.1, Lecture 5.2, Lecture 5.3a Populations and Samples, Lecture 5.3-5.4, Chapter 5 summary – things you should know
supplement 1: For 5.1, you may find Dr. John Millson’s “cool counterexample” interesting. Stat400 Lecture 19 More than Two Random Variables
supplement 2: section 5.4 supplement Central Limit Theorem,
(solutions
made available in the Files section of ELMS after homework is handed in)
Lecture 6.1a – see note below , Lecture 6.1b mean & variance, Lecture 6.1c proportion,
(solutions
made available in the Files section of ELMS after homework is handed in)
For sections 6.1 and 6.2, you may find Dr. John Millson’s Lecture notes helpful.
Stat400 Lecture 22 6.1 Point Estimation
Stat400 Lecture 23 6.2 Finding Estimators
Lecture 6.2, Chapter 6 summary – things you should know
Lecture
7.1, Lecture
7.2, Chapter
7 summary – things you should know