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  **MAS301 - Course Information** ======  Welcome to Level 3 NCEA. Statistics and Modelling is a demanding course that will cover a significant amount of new material, thus requiring you to maintain a sound work ethic throughout the year. This course will provide you with the ability to utilise and analyse a few of the mathematical models that can be found in business, society, nature and the like. A significant portion of the course will be given to probability, as well.  Seven Achievement Standards will be available to students in this course. The Course Outline is as follows:  ** Achievement Standards: **


 * **90641 ** ||  **3.1 **  || Time Series: // Determine the trend for time series data **(Internal)** //  ||
 * **90642 ** ||  ** 3.2  **  || Confidence Intervals: // Calculate confidence intervals for population parameters //  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90643 ** ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3.3  **  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Probability: // Solve straightforward problems involving probability //  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90644 ** ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3.4  **  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Equations: // Solve equations //  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90645 ** ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3.5  **  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Bi-variate Data: // Select and analyse continuous bi-variate data ** (Internal) ** //  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90646 ** ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3.6  **  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Distributions: // Use probability distributions to solve straightforward problems //  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90647 ** ||  ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3.7  **  || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Modelling: // Use a mathematical model involving curve fitting to solve a problem ** (Internal) ** //  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Achievement Standards **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> are either ** internally ** or ** externally ** assessed. To gain credit, a student must provide evidence that they can meet the standard in each unit of work. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">There will be three internally assessed Achievement Standards. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The rest of the Achievement Standards will be assessed by the external examination in November. Practice exams held during Term 3, and topic tests, will provide marks on which aegrotat assessment will be made, if necessary. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Course programme **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The course programme is displayed on page 2. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">

<span style="border-bottom: #4f81bd 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 4pt; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"> MAS301 Programme 2011 |||| **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Term 1 (11 Weeks) ** ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Time Series // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(NOTE: Actual assessment will be 90 minutes) ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">INTERNAL  // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3 credits ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Practice assessment Fri 25 Feb // ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">ACTUAL ASSESSMENT FRI 4 MARCH // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90643 ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Probability // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(can start Distributions wk11) ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">EXTERNAL  // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">4 credits ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Formative assessment by Fri 15 April //  ||
 * **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Topic ** || **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Assessment ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">31 – 4 Feb   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90641
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 – 11 Feb   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">14 – 18 Feb   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">21 – 25 Feb   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">5 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">28 – 4 Mar   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">6 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 – 11 Mar   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">14 – 18 Mar   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">8 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">21 – 25 Mar   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">9 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">28 – 1Apr   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">10 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4 – 8 Apr   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">11 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">11 – 15 Apr   ||^   ||^   ||

|||| **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Term 2 (11 Weeks) ** ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Distributions // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">  ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">EXTERNAL  // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3 credits ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Formative assessment Fri 20 May //  || ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Bi-variate data // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(NOTE: Actual assessment will be 90 minutes) ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">INTERNAL  // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3 credits ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Practice assessment Fri 10 June // ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">ACTUAL ASSESSMENT FRI 17 June // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   || ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Modelling // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(NOTE: Actual assessment will be 90 minutes) ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">INTERNAL  //** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3 credits  ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Practice assessment Fri 1 July // ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">ACTUAL ASSESSMENT FRI 8 July // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   ||
 * **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Topic ** || **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Assessment **  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2 – 6 May   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90646
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">9 – 13 May   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">16 – 20 May   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">23 – 27 May   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90645
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">5 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">30 – 3 Jun   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">6 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 – 10 <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">(Queens Bday) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">13 – 17 Jun   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">8 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">20 – 24 Jun   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90647
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">9 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">27 – 1 Jul   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">10 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4 – 8 Jul   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">11 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">11 – 15 Jul   ||||  ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Catch up for Internals/ Revision  // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   ||

|||| **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Term 3 (10 Weeks) ** ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Equations // ** ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">EXTERNAL  // ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">4 credits ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Formative assessment Fri 26 Aug //  || ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Confidence Intervals // **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">  ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">EXTERNAL  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3 credits ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Formative assessment Fri 19 Aug //  ||
 * **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Topic ** || **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Assessment **  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1 – 5 Aug   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90644
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">8 – 12 Aug   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">15 – 19 Aug   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">4 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">22 – 26 Aug   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">5 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">29 – 2 Sep   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Revision  ||  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">6 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">5 – 9 Sep   ||||  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Senior Exams ** 90943, 90644, 90646 **   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">12 – 16 Sep   ||||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">8 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">19 – 23 Sep   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90642
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">9 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">26 – 30 Sep   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">10 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3 – 7 Oct   ||^   ||^   ||

|||| **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Term 4 (7 Weeks) ** // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90642, 90643, 90644, 90646 //  ||
 * **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Topic ** || **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Assessment **  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">1 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">25 – 28 <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">(Labour day)   || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Revision  ||  // <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Revision for  //
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">2 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">31 – 4 Nov   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">3 ** || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">7 – 10 Nov <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">(show day)   ||^   ||^   ||

**  Attendance   ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">This is a fast-paced Statistics course that will incur new content every day. It is imperative that all students are in class for every teaching period. If you need to be excused from class you should see your teacher beforehand. If you are unavoidably absent you should explain your absence to your teacher when you return. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">It is ** your responsibility ** to catch up on work if you are absent for any reason. This may involve borrowing notes from a classmate, working through exercises and attending tutorials if necessary. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Assessment ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">You will be provided with the dates for each assessment well in advance. If you know you will be away, you must inform your teacher as soon as possible to arrange a time to sit the assessment. ** If you miss an internal assessment you must provide a valid reason e.g. doctor’s certificate or school activity, to be eligible for the assessment at a later date. **If you miss an internal (with a valid reason) and you cannot make the catch-up session (T2 W11) it is likely you be withdrawn from the standard (to be confirmed with KR). <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Your assessment records will be kept in a file by your teacher at school. It is essential that you keep track of your own progress with the Achievement Standards and you will be given a tracking sheet to help you do this. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Homework ** <span style="height: 140.4pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 213.4pt; margin-top: 108.55pt; position: absolute; text-align: left; width: 244.8pt; z-index: 4;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">In order to be successful in this programme you will need to follow up each class with your own study and practice of the skills and problems. You should allow at least 30 to 45 minutes a night for this. Very often your teacher will set the work which you need to cover, but as the year goes on you will be expected to make use of your textbook to cover a wide range of examples without specific instructions. Tutorials are offered regularly and provide a good opportunity to do homework with teacher assistance. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Helpful Websites ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Textbook ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">Your textbook is on loan to you for the year. It should be returned in good condition. Please use the textbook cover provided to help reduce wear and tear of the textbook. Never write in your textbook, not even in pencil. Loss or damage will be charged for at the end of the year so that the book can be replaced. The textbook costs $60. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Graphics Calculators ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">You will be seriously disadvantaged if you do not own a graphics calculator (CASIO FX9750). These are available for purchase through the school payment centre. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="height: 181.95pt; margin-left: 294.1pt; margin-top: -16pt; mso-wrap-style: none; position: absolute; width: 139.65pt; z-index: 5;"><span style="mso-fit-shape-to-text: t; mso-next-textbox: #_x0000_s1028;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">You need to bring to class: <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Exercise book <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Textbook <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Graphics calculator <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Pens, pencils and ruler <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Tutorials ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">These are available before school, during lunch and after school on most school days. Check the tutorial timetable which will be on the noticeboards in the classrooms and around the school. Look for tutorials run by specialist statistics teachers and attend any of these. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Scholarship ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">If you are interested in sitting the Statistics scholarship examination, it is imperative that you consult with your teacher and be prepared to commit at least one hour a week to the scholarship programme that will be on offer. Although Year 12 students cannot officially use the scholarship results this year, it is still recommended that you sit the scholarship examination to practice for the ensuing year. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Problems and Information ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">If you have any problems or need further information you should ask your class teacher first. You may also consult the Head of Faculty at the Mathematics and Statistics office which is near S4. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">
 * [|**www.studyit.org.nz**]** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> provides assessment criteria, subject content, tips and practice assessment for all achievement standards.
 * [|**www.nzqa.govt.nz**]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: provides general information about NZQA assessments and previous years exams.
 * [|**http://www.studypass.co.nz**]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">notes, coaching, revision check-list
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">http://www.ncearevision.co.nz **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> practice questions
 * [|**http://www.mathscentre.co.nz**]<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">video tutorials.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Stationery and Equipment **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">