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Prof. Oates’s Spring 2011 Teaching and Office Hours Schedule
Here’s my OCCC schedule for the Spring 2011 term.
Math General Education Courses and Course Precedence Diagram
A summary of the OCCC general education math courses is available here.
Here’s a precedence diagram for OCCC math courses (Adobe Acrobat file).
Math Help (Other Subjects, Too!)
Lots of help for math and other subjects is available at KhanAcademy.org and free-ed.net. Give them a try.
View Your Grades
Your grades for the Fall 2010 semester are now available on the OCCC MineOnline website. Grades for previous semesters are available on the OCCC MineOnline system. Here’s a procedure for viewing them. If your Fall 2010 Math for Health Careers or College Algebra grade differs from what you reasonably expected, please e-mail me as soon as possible.
New Pics
Christmas celebrations: 2010-12-25, Christmas at Carri and Dustin’s, 2010-12-24, Christmas at Glenda and Joe’s. (updated)
OCCC’s Nursing School conducts its 2010-12-17 Pinning Ceremony.
Fiftieth anniversary pics: find (use Ctrl-F) “Buddy & Betty” without quotation marks; or just see far below.
How NOT to Analyze Data
“Global Warming Stopped in 1998” Oh, really? Here’s a classic case of 1) playing fast and loose with data, cherry picking a short segment while ignoring the bigger picture and 2) complete failure to understand the complexity of the system that’s being discussed. At best, it’s a manifestation of ignorance; at worst, it’s a classic propaganda technique. Have a look at the big picture here . Be careful not to make such an error yourself or unwittingly spread the results of someone else’s erroneous analysis. A statistics course [find “Statistics”] is a useful prevention for some of these kinds of errors. So is the study of propaganda techniques.
Personal Items Section Moved
The Personal Items section has it own tab at ProfOates.wordpress.com .
