Mathematics of Data Management -- MDM 4U
Welcome to Mr. King's Data Management webpage!
Gonzaga Secondary School, Summer 2007

This website is erected as a service to the students of Mr. King's Data Management class. It may not be updated as often as some students would like, but you certainly won't miss anything if you show up to class. There are web links available here by way of tutorial, and some PDF versions of some handouts in case you may have misplaced some documents.

Good luck in the course!

Here are the guidelines for handing in assignments:

  1. Assignments must be done legibly, and in pen.
  2. All sections must be preceded by a cover page. Usually the question sheet is OK, unless told otherwise.
  3. Always start sections on a new page/
  4. Use "Let" statements to declare all variables
  5. Give answers to at least two decimals. To get the correct answer, it is usually wise to not do any rounding until the last step.
  6. Graphs and diagrams should be neatly labelled and titled.
  7. Briefly explain your steps as you go. I don't want long explanations, but I do want to make sense of your work.
  8. Math problems must end with a concluding statement.
Handouts and links by course section
Date Section Information
Jul 5-6 Sec 1.1 1.5 1.6 1.7

Class Notes

Jul 5-6 Sec 1.1 1.5 1.6 1.7 Assignment #1 Sheets
Jul 5-6 1.1 1.5 1.6 1.7 Chap. Tst Text Sections and Exercises (Temporary links: may not read equally well in all versions of Adobe Acrobat)
Jul 5-6 BASIC SKILLS Backgrounders and skill builders for the course: Evaluating expressions, Exponent Laws, Fractions/Percents/Decimals, Number Patterns, Order of Operations, Ratios of Areas, Simplifying Expressions, Solving Equations, Substitution
Jul 9 1.2-1.4

Studied for quiz (Review handout with answers)
Quiz

Jul 10-12 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Handouts for the next assignment. Questions will be taken from these.
Jul 10 2.1 2.2 2.3 Notes
Jul 11 2.4 2.5 2.6 Notes
Jul 12 3.1/3.2 Notes
Jul 13 3.4 3.5 Notes
Jul 16 4.1 FCP
more 4.1
Notes, Handout (Fundamental Counting Principle)
Jul 17 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Notes (4.4 and 4.5 from text)
July 18 5.1 Notes
Jul 19 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.4 (Supp) Notes
Jul 23 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 (6.1 also covered Jul 20) Notes
Jul 24 6.5 6.6 Notes
Jul 25 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 No electronic version available.
Jul 26-27 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Notes (No electronic version of 8.4)
Jul 27 Unit 3 Review for Unit 3
Jul 30 8.5 8.6 Notes (8.5 has remainder of steps missing after step 3; 8.6 is not the notes presented, but ought to be somewhat similar)
Jul 30 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 SM answers Assignment 7 posted w/answers (SM=study master, also handed out last week)
   Special Links (Some require Acrobat)
 
Web Mr. King's MDM4U Site

Combinatorics Links:


The Fundamental Counting Principle - Let's suppose you are a web surfer with 5 different web sites to choose from. How many different ways can you visit 3 of the following 6 links? 1 2 3 4 5 Sample problems

Permutations - Let's suppose you are a web surfer with 5 different web sites to choose from. How many different ways can you visit ALL of the following links exactly once? 1 2 3 4 5

Sample problems in permutations - Glide your mouse over the pink rectangles to see the answers. This web page appears to have some minor problems with representing subscripts, particularly those involving nPr.

Combinations - 1 2 3

Permutations and Combinations - Other sites: 1 (Includes Pascal's Triangle) 2

Venn diagrams - 1: Wikipedia entry   2: Venn Diagrams Applet A general trivia quiz made up of venn diagrams.  Advanced explanation of venn diagrams.

Research Links (Culminating Assignment) (assigned July 18; Due Jul 28)
E-Stat - Statistics Canada Databases

The Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes - A good place to go to see not only some common math errors, but to also get a handle on ways by which graphs and tables can misrepresent the results of various studies. PDF file.

How to write a thesis statement

Examples of Culminating Projects

Statistics Canada Free Government Publications

Hockey Statistics Database

General Sports Database
Some further Math/Stats links (there may be a few repeated links):

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