Assignments 2

We are concerned that there are not enough hours in the day for you to do a final project in addition to all of the reading, homework exercises, journal assignments, and computer labs. Other impediments include not knowing where the library is, not having a favorite pizza parlor from which to get statistics about pizza-eating habits, not knowing where to go to find people willing to answer surveys.... We have come up with various alternatives:

• Cancel the projects and the Chance Fair.

• Cancel the projects; turn the Chance Fair into a Casino Night.

• Cancel the homework exercises and the reading assignments.

• Cancel the computer labs during the second week and set aside this time for work on projects.

• Give people a choice between doing the computer labs the second week and doing a project.

• Cut back on reading, homework, and computer assignments. and set aside all day on Tuesday and Thursday of the second week as time to work on projects.

All of these alternatives have their drawbacks. We would probably lean toward the final alternative, but we thought it would best to let you discuss among yourselves what you prefer. Maybe you will be able to think of an alternative better than any of those listed here.

Wednesday lab

Do the EEEE units on `When will asteroids hit?' and `Home field advantage?' (ignore question 2 on this one). Write about the questions raised there in your journal.

Journal assignments for Thursday

• Read `The median is not the message', and comment in your journal.
• Read Chapter 13 of FPPA, and begin reading Chapter 14. Do the following review exercises for Chapter 13: 3 and 7.

Journal assignments for Friday

• In the world series, one of the teams plays games at home, home, away, away, away, home, home. Is this the best way to determine the best team? Is it the best way to maximize revenue?
• Read Chapters 14 and 15 of FPPA. Do the following review exercises: Chapter 14 numbers 10 and 12; Chapter 15 numbers 7 and 8.