Guidelines for Problem Sets
Math 141 Introductory Statistics, Spring 2022

I firmly believe that one of the best ways to build your understanding of mathematics is to explore the ideas with other students. Therefore, I encourage you to discuss the assignments with other students, but your solutions should represent your own work. If you do work with another student on an assignment, you should indicate that in a note on the top of your paper.

I have high expectations for the presentation of the Problem Sets. If you do not follow these guidelines, I reserve the right to return your Problem Set ungraded. I am not being unnecessarily annoying about this. Learning to carefully organize your thoughts and clearly communicate them is one of the most important skills you will learn in college.

• Your solutions must be typed. This will allow you to include output from Minitab with your assignments. You will submit each Problem Set to onCourse as a single pdf file.
• Include your name and date on the first page of each assignment, and clearly label each problem with the section and exercise number.
• Your solutions must be well-written, using complete sentences to justify your results.
• A list of answers without explanation is not acceptable and will be graded accordingly.
• Here is a good rule of thumb to follow when writing up your problem sets:

  Write your solutions so that you could hand them to a student who took Intro Stats last semester and she could understand your explanation.

• Remember, if you do work with someone else on the assignment, you should indicate that in a note on the top of your paper.

Each Problem Set will normally consist of 4-6 problems and will be graded fairly leniently by an advanced student, with each prooblem graded on a scale of 0-3. You can drop one Problem Set from your grade at the end of the semester.

You should definitely plan to start early on the Problem Sets so that you can take advantage of my office hours and Peer Tutoring.

Remember that the purpose of all of the assignments and activities in the course is to help you learn statistics!