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• Registration & Logistic Information
• Peruse the Website and Resources Located therein
• Familiarize with folder submission
• Make Info Sheet
1. Name
2. School
3. Subject/Grade
4. Phone (Home or School)
5. Address (Home or School)
6. Email Address you check most often
• 6 pens and Cereal boxes
  • Web Version
• Using Microsoft Excel
  • Entering Data in Excel
  • Creating Data in Excel
  • Graphing Data in Excel
• Textbook Distribution and Discussion
• Questions to consider
1. What is hardest thing to teach about measurement?
2. What can/do you teach about measurement?
3. What types of measuring devices are used in your program areas? or in your field of expertise?
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Jay Hill's Lesson on-line
• Two Assignments for February 19, 2000
  (To be created in MS Excel and/or MS Word....SAVED As HTML....And Deposited in your folders)

1. WORK THROUGH THE ENTIRE LESSON 
   ON DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS (JAY HILL)
2. DATA EXPLORATION: Each person comes up with his/her own set of data..student test scores, measurements, weather observations, whatever...30 data points...
   • ENTER THE DATA IN EXCEL
   • FIND MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY WITH EXCEL
   • EXPLAIN CONCLUSIONS YOU CAN DRAW FROM THIS DATA SET.
   • CONFUSED??? DOWNLOAD & SEE WHAT 
     A MED CAREERS STUDENT DID WITH HER DATA SET
     ....DO SOMETHING SIMILAR WITH YOURS.