1. 1 CSCE 115 Solve it with the Computer Review Fall 2005

2. 2 Course Goals Learn how the computer can be combined with mathematical reasoning to solve problems That is, improve your analytical, problem solving skills

3. 3 Topics Spreadsheets (Excel) Financial math Statistics Web pages

4. 4 Spreadsheets (Excel) Entering information Formatting Formulas Functions Relative and absolute references Charts What if questions Goal seek

5. 5 Some Financial Mathematics Simple and compound interest APR Loans Savings Amortization (and related) tables Present values, future values, payments, rates and periods Retirement savings Inflation Value of long range savings plans

6. 6 An Introduction to Statistics Descriptive statistics Inferential statistics

7. 7 Descriptive Statistics Mean, mode, median Count Maximum and minimum Standard deviations and variance Entire population versus a sample Histogram

8. 8 Inferential Statistics Normal curve Uniform distribution Normal distribution Applications: SAT Grading on a curve Other

9. 9 Web Pages HTML 4.0 Tags,, sections Paragraphs, tables, lists, hyperlinks, images Formatting CSS Allows good control of the formatting One.css file can be used for many web pages URLs