MAT177-80 WELCOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Here is some important information about MAT177-321

• We will meet online Saturday mornings, 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM, using Blackboard Collaborate
  • When we get back to campus we will meet in
    Lowell Pollard building room 403 at 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM
  • You can park in the Leo A Roy Garage on Market Street and have your ticket validated downstairs
• We will be using a free web/PDF book (INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS by Illowsky & Dean)
  •    or 
  • DO NOT buy a book from the bookstore
  • A printed copy of the RED version can be purchased from lulu.com for under $20, it takes about 5 days to get to your house
  • The yellow copy is available at Amazon.com for under $35
• You MUST create a WebAssign account to turn in homework
  • The institution code is middlesex.mass
  • The class key is  – middlesex.mass 7687 9093
• There are 20 laptops available for 28 students, if you have a laptop or tablet, I suggest you bring it
• This is a Flipped Class
  • Infographic 1 – Knewton.com
  • Infographic 2 – eLearningIndustry.com
• You will be submitting your lecture notes weekly using any tool you want (ie Word, Google Docs, EverNote etc.)
  • Your notes for Chapter 1 are due  before the first class.
  • Also there is an introductory discussion board
• The weighting system for your final grades has been determined by polling classes since 2013 and here are the results

  • Weekly Classwork & Attendance	10%
    Lecture Notes	13%
    Homework	26%
    Unit Tests & Projects	40%
    Final Project	11%

• You have a MCC email account, after this all correspondence from me will go there.
  • Make sure you check it!
• The syllabus and schedule 
  • Notice that the notes for Chapter 1 & Introduction are due BEFORE the first class!
• You will need a Statistics Calculator (TI-83/84)
  • You can also use any of the free sites listed in the calculator section
    • Free Statistics Calculators!
    • easycalculation.com
  • WabbitEMU has a TI84 plus emulator for Android
    • There is also a version for PC/MAC
      • Follow these instructions to install it on a PC
  • There are many apps available for iOS like But I am not sure how good they are

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