Mathematics and Statistics Service Teaching

Tuesday Lab 12-1pm

March 3rd, 2009

Hi

No joy moving this lab as I wanted to. Again, there was good attendance for the lab but I suspect that the classes tomorrow will be another story.

Most students wrapped up their work on Labs 1 and 2

• Lab 1: Covered producing Histograms, frequency curves and ogives in Excel.  It is a step by step guide for the students with screenshots.
•  Lab 2: Covered similar material to Lab 1 but is based on data downloaded from a Moodle site and imported into Excel using the Data, Import.. facility. It also uses CountIf to create frequency tables.

Next week we will look at summary statistics and using the Excel Analysis Tool AddIn. This comes as standard with Excel (I think?). Go to Tools, AddIn’s and click on it to enable. After that, students will get an assignment to do for a week or so. Part of it will involve downloading data and i’ll put their data sources on a future post.

One problem with our labs is that the machines face in several different directions. This gets them chatting and playing games as you can’t see them! We have some software to monitor machines and turn stuff off (I’ll try and find out what it is called for next time) but you rarely get to look at a monitor for that long as you are busy round the room. Anyone else know how to deal with this problem without being too draconian?

Next class the dreaded Wednesday afternoon 2 hour session…

bye

Paul

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