Math 10B Spring 2019, Sections 101 and 105

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Tips and other resources

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):

Section Worksheets

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

Quizzes

Statistics on quiz scores

These statistics are statistics for the average of the top 10 quiz scores (i.e. with three dropped quizzes).

Section First quartile Median Third quartile
101 7.95 9.1 9.9
105 7.05 8.55 10.2

Old quizzes and solutions

Quiz 1: January 29 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 2: February 5 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 3: February 12 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 4: February 19 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 5: February 26 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 6: March 5 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 7: March 12 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 8: March 19 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 9: April 2 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 10: April 9 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 11: April 16 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 11: April 16 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 12: April 23 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Quiz 13: April 30 101 Problems 101 Solutions 105 Problems 105 Solutions
Mock quiz 14: "May 7" (The quiz I would have given) (not actually a graded quiz that will happen)