Office hours: 1056 Evans, Wednesdays and Fridays 11am
The Student Learning Center has study groups and drop-in hours for Math 10B.
Another GSI's webpage for Math 10B this semester and a third GSI's webpage for Math 10B this semester.
Some practice problems for midterm 1, written by students in my sections.
Some study strategies I like using (your mileage may vary):
Thursday, January 24 | Basics of counting: multistage processes, sum and product rules. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, January 29 | Complementary counting and PIE; pigeonhole principle. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, January 31 | More pigeonhole; combinations and permutations. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, February 5 | The binomial theorem; intro to balls and boxes. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, February 7 | More balls and boxes. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, February 12 | Algorithms; intro to induction. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, February 14 | More induction. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, February 19 | Introduction to probability. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, February 21 | Conditional Probability. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, February 26 | Bayes' Theorem. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, February 28 | Independent events. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, March 5 | Random variables; intro to discrete probability distributions. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, March 7 | Discrete probability distributions. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, March 12 | Expected value; intro to variance. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, March 14 | Variance and covariance. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, March 19 | Limits of random variables; intro to continuous random variables. | Problems | (no solutions, since the problem did not specify a value of n; see HW20 solns) |
Thursday, March 21 | PDFs and CDFs. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, April 2 | Means and medians for continuous random variables. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, April 4 | Variances of continuous random variables. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, April 9 | Chebyshev's inequality; normal distributions. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, April 11 | Normal distributions; sampling. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, April 16 | Maximum likelihood estimation with one observation; with multiple observations. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, April 18 | More on maximum likelihood estimation; intro to hypothesis testing. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, April 23 | The Z-test; the T-test. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, April 25 | The T-test; the χ2 goodness-of-fit test. | Problems | Solutions |
Tuesday, April 30 | The χ2 test for independence. | Problems | Solutions |
Thursday, May 2 | Correlation and best-fit lines. | Problems | Solutions |
These statistics are statistics for the average of the top 10 quiz scores (i.e. with three dropped quizzes).