This spring 2019 semester class I took was not my only foray into statistics. I took regular statistics during senior year of high school, so some of this stuff was review for me. The class was writing notes from power-points with the professor talking about these slides. She even wrote ideas that she wanted us to know and understand more of on the whiteboard. These power-points were just like what was said in the textbook, and a lot of it was equations and formulas to remember and know how to use. The tests we took were all multiple choice and we could use the graphing calculator on them, so they weren’t that bad. I have used a graphing calculator before, but this class taught me lots of different ways to get the answer for some equations and formulas easier on the calculator than by hand. The homework assignments were on WebAssign which I hadn’t used before and was pretty easy to catch on to. For these assignments, we had two weeks to do them and multiple tries if we got the answer wrong the first time, so I liked that. It allowed me to understand what I did wrong and ask the professor to explain if I still didn’t understand. There were also three written paper’s in this class. I hadn’t written about math before, but the professor mapped it out for us which made it easier for me to understand how to write these papers. All these paper’s were for us to show what we have learned and how to use the terms, formulas, and equations. They helped show that we understood what was being talked about in the class, and they weren’t long paper’s. My artifact is the second paper I did about normal distribution and z-values.
This statistics class wasn’t too hard of a class and it helped me to understand this different type of math better. This is coming from someone who isn’t really a math person at all. If I remember enough of it, it might help me in life after college as well as during college.