Test & Evaluation (T&E) is the process by which a system or components are compared against requirements and specifications through testing. The results are evaluated to assess progress of design, performance, supportability, etc.
Test & Evaluation (T&E) is the process by which a system or components are compared against requirements and specifications through testing. The results are evaluated to assess progress of design, performance, supportability, etc.
Math Mindset Comes First: Closing the Achievement GapDreamBox Learning
Students who are behind in math may suffer from “failure fatigue.” Symptoms may include feeling of nausea when math class approaches, “answer getting,” and feelings of frustration with no cure. To relieve the symptoms, we must first treat the cause – a fixed mindset where students believe that they are bad at math and will never get it. In this EdWeb webinar, Leland Kriegh explored the reasons why we need to focus on building a math mindset within each student before we focus on specific skills. He also shared five resources to help you develop your students’ math mindset and how you can foster this in the math classroom and outside-the-classroom programs. This webinar will benefit all K-12 math educators, especially those teaching in K-8; and administrators, including principals, assistant principals, superintendents, district administrators, and curriculum directors.
STAT4610 Project 5So You Want to be an Entrepreneur”INTROD.docxmckellarhastings
STAT4610 Project 5
“So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?”
INTRODUCTION
Starting a new business can be an exciting adventure! Who doesn’t want to find themselves at the top of the next Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, Beanie Babies, Pet Rocks, Roto-Rooter, Enron, WorldCom, (OK, you get the point!)?
The problem with starting a new business is it carries an inherent amount of risk. (OK, a considerable amount of risk!) One-third of businesses fail within the first two years, and over half are gone in five years. That’s a waste of a significant amount of toil, sweat, intellectual effort, creativity, and—oh yes—capital! Failed businesses have stripped entrepreneurs of their life savings (and the savings of others) for millennia, but the successes have also lined the pockets of a lot of savvy investors.
Since most people can’t afford to fund their own startups, a popular strategy involves convincing others to get behind your great idea. Venture capital funds are always willing to chase the next big thing, but unfortunately there is a limit to the patience of the world’s check-writers, and most of them didn’t get rich without recognizing when it is time to cut losses.
There is hope, however! Analytics can help every new business set realistic expectations for their investors, and in fact are essential in the formulation of a business plan. Because of the uncertainties involved with startups (in terms of costs, timelines, returns, rates of success, etc.) it is often difficult to forecast the progression of a new venture, but with a sufficient knowledge of the field and the tasks required, a simulation can frequently get an entrepreneur into the right ballpark. Sometimes this is enough to start the money flowing!
PROJECT OVERVIEW
In this project you will develop a business plan for an Angel Investor in order to secure funding for your new startup. You will require funding until the point that your company generates a profit and is actually able to return capital (or positive equity) to its investors. Expenses may include payroll for developers or designers, facilities and infrastructure, marketing and sales, purchasing or collecting data, research, and a variety of other costs that you may want to identify. Obviously, you will have to identify a viable product around which to build your company, and if you’re stuck without an idea, feel free to go back to your Gateway Course and build a business around app development. Finally, you will need to determine the cost of executing your business plan across this timeline in order to secure sufficient funding.
[As an aside, the particular product or service is not essential to this project—you may use something developed in another course, some cool idea that you might have in mind, or something entirely fictional.]
You may make any assumptions you want concerning the availability of personnel (whether you will be required to hire them or if they are already onboard as part .
Slides from a webinar presented by Heidi Hayes Jacobs from Curriculum21 about implementing the Common Core State Standards and mapping your curriculum to the standards. This webinar was held on April 18, 2013. Watch the recording here: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/resources/webinars/webinar-heidi-hayes-jacobs-common-core/
Assignment Budget Planning and ControlBefore approaching this a.docxrock73
Assignment: Budget Planning and Control
Before approaching this assignment, be sure that you have watched the following video.
· Budgetary Planning featuring Babycakes *FULL VIDEO*. (2016). YouTube.
Babycakes, a specialty bakery, is the company that will be considered for all parts of your budget planning and control report. For this assignment, you will develop a three to four (3 – 4) page paper in which you address the following.
1. Briefly discuss the ways a realistic budget will benefit the owner of Babycakes versus having no budget at all. Be sure to use Babycakes as the company and any specific product details in your explanation.
2. Prepare a sales budget for the LA Babycakes store for the 4th quarter of 2016. Present the number of units, sales price, and total sales for each month; include October, November, and December, and a total for the quarter. Use one-half of the Valentine’s Day sales as the basis for a usual day in the new quarter. Use 30 days for each month. Calculate the total sales for each month for October, November, and December.
3. Create three (3) new products, one (1) for each of the three (3) holiday seasons in the 4th quarter. Estimate the sales units, sales price, and total sales for each month. Describe the assumptions used to make these estimates. Include an overview of the budget in the report, presenting the actual budget as an appendix with all data and calculations. Add these amounts to your sales budget.
4. The owner of Babycakes is interested in preparing a flexible budget rather than the static budget she currently uses. She does not understand why, when sales increase, her static budget often shows an unfavorable variance. Explain how a flexible budget will overcome this problem. Use the details of your newly prepared budget for the 4th quarter of 2016 to address her concern.
5. Imagine that Babycakes is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amount of money that it spends to become significantly more than its budgeted amount. Include a discussion of your own unique cause of the overspending. Explain the corrective actions needed to address these challenges.
6. Integrate relevant information from at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Please do not use your textbook as an academic resource. Also, Wikipedia and other Websites that are unreliable do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements.
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
· An abstract is not required.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this ...
Math Mindset Comes First: Closing the Achievement GapDreamBox Learning
Students who are behind in math may suffer from “failure fatigue.” Symptoms may include feeling of nausea when math class approaches, “answer getting,” and feelings of frustration with no cure. To relieve the symptoms, we must first treat the cause – a fixed mindset where students believe that they are bad at math and will never get it. In this EdWeb webinar, Leland Kriegh explored the reasons why we need to focus on building a math mindset within each student before we focus on specific skills. He also shared five resources to help you develop your students’ math mindset and how you can foster this in the math classroom and outside-the-classroom programs. This webinar will benefit all K-12 math educators, especially those teaching in K-8; and administrators, including principals, assistant principals, superintendents, district administrators, and curriculum directors.
STAT4610 Project 5So You Want to be an Entrepreneur”INTROD.docxmckellarhastings
STAT4610 Project 5
“So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?”
INTRODUCTION
Starting a new business can be an exciting adventure! Who doesn’t want to find themselves at the top of the next Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, Beanie Babies, Pet Rocks, Roto-Rooter, Enron, WorldCom, (OK, you get the point!)?
The problem with starting a new business is it carries an inherent amount of risk. (OK, a considerable amount of risk!) One-third of businesses fail within the first two years, and over half are gone in five years. That’s a waste of a significant amount of toil, sweat, intellectual effort, creativity, and—oh yes—capital! Failed businesses have stripped entrepreneurs of their life savings (and the savings of others) for millennia, but the successes have also lined the pockets of a lot of savvy investors.
Since most people can’t afford to fund their own startups, a popular strategy involves convincing others to get behind your great idea. Venture capital funds are always willing to chase the next big thing, but unfortunately there is a limit to the patience of the world’s check-writers, and most of them didn’t get rich without recognizing when it is time to cut losses.
There is hope, however! Analytics can help every new business set realistic expectations for their investors, and in fact are essential in the formulation of a business plan. Because of the uncertainties involved with startups (in terms of costs, timelines, returns, rates of success, etc.) it is often difficult to forecast the progression of a new venture, but with a sufficient knowledge of the field and the tasks required, a simulation can frequently get an entrepreneur into the right ballpark. Sometimes this is enough to start the money flowing!
PROJECT OVERVIEW
In this project you will develop a business plan for an Angel Investor in order to secure funding for your new startup. You will require funding until the point that your company generates a profit and is actually able to return capital (or positive equity) to its investors. Expenses may include payroll for developers or designers, facilities and infrastructure, marketing and sales, purchasing or collecting data, research, and a variety of other costs that you may want to identify. Obviously, you will have to identify a viable product around which to build your company, and if you’re stuck without an idea, feel free to go back to your Gateway Course and build a business around app development. Finally, you will need to determine the cost of executing your business plan across this timeline in order to secure sufficient funding.
[As an aside, the particular product or service is not essential to this project—you may use something developed in another course, some cool idea that you might have in mind, or something entirely fictional.]
You may make any assumptions you want concerning the availability of personnel (whether you will be required to hire them or if they are already onboard as part .
Slides from a webinar presented by Heidi Hayes Jacobs from Curriculum21 about implementing the Common Core State Standards and mapping your curriculum to the standards. This webinar was held on April 18, 2013. Watch the recording here: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/resources/webinars/webinar-heidi-hayes-jacobs-common-core/
Assignment Budget Planning and ControlBefore approaching this a.docxrock73
Assignment: Budget Planning and Control
Before approaching this assignment, be sure that you have watched the following video.
· Budgetary Planning featuring Babycakes *FULL VIDEO*. (2016). YouTube.
Babycakes, a specialty bakery, is the company that will be considered for all parts of your budget planning and control report. For this assignment, you will develop a three to four (3 – 4) page paper in which you address the following.
1. Briefly discuss the ways a realistic budget will benefit the owner of Babycakes versus having no budget at all. Be sure to use Babycakes as the company and any specific product details in your explanation.
2. Prepare a sales budget for the LA Babycakes store for the 4th quarter of 2016. Present the number of units, sales price, and total sales for each month; include October, November, and December, and a total for the quarter. Use one-half of the Valentine’s Day sales as the basis for a usual day in the new quarter. Use 30 days for each month. Calculate the total sales for each month for October, November, and December.
3. Create three (3) new products, one (1) for each of the three (3) holiday seasons in the 4th quarter. Estimate the sales units, sales price, and total sales for each month. Describe the assumptions used to make these estimates. Include an overview of the budget in the report, presenting the actual budget as an appendix with all data and calculations. Add these amounts to your sales budget.
4. The owner of Babycakes is interested in preparing a flexible budget rather than the static budget she currently uses. She does not understand why, when sales increase, her static budget often shows an unfavorable variance. Explain how a flexible budget will overcome this problem. Use the details of your newly prepared budget for the 4th quarter of 2016 to address her concern.
5. Imagine that Babycakes is facing a financial challenge that is causing the actual amount of money that it spends to become significantly more than its budgeted amount. Include a discussion of your own unique cause of the overspending. Explain the corrective actions needed to address these challenges.
6. Integrate relevant information from at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Please do not use your textbook as an academic resource. Also, Wikipedia and other Websites that are unreliable do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements.
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
· An abstract is not required.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this ...
Questions whether used in classroom teaching or for oral / written Examination, are the most important tool for effective teaching & learning. Teachers are expected to have mastery over framing questions.
Numeracy & Mathematical Reasoning Assessment Photo Album.
Mission Possible Powerpoint
1. Common Core Standards for STAR Academy
Presented by: Ms. Washington & Mr. Ingram
“ I love those who yearn for the impossible.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
2. There will be 100% implementation of the
CCSS for the 2014-2015 Academic School
Year.
The CCSS centered aroundTEAM Evaluation.
According to research, we should not be
allowing students to learn using calculators.
Many teachers across the nation believe it is
will be IMPOSSIBLE to implement these new
standards.
3. Focus: instruction strongly aligns with the CCSS.
Coherence: in regards to planning teachers must think
across grades and link to major topics within grades.
Rigor: lessons require conceptual understanding,
procedural skill/fluency, and application with intensity.
www.TNCore.org - 2012
4. http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/grade-4/operations-and-algebraic-thinking/
Grade 4 Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
Generate and analyze patterns.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform
multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous
understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal
fractions.
5. http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/grade-4/operations-and-algebraic-thinking/
Measurement and Data
Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a
larger unit to a smaller unit.
Represent and interpret data.
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.
Geometry
Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines
and angles.
Mathematical Practices
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Operations and
Algebraic Thinking (4.OA)
6. 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, 2010, NGA Center/CCSSO
7.
8. To celebrate your birthday, your grandparents take you
shopping .Which sale should you take advantage of if
you want the best reduction on a sweater that costs
$68.79?
SALE #1: 30% discount
SALE #2: 20% discount,
with an additional 10% off of the sale price
Does each sale result in the same reduction off the
original cost? Explain what you would pay in each sale
situation, and similarities or differences between the
two sales.
10. To celebrate your election to the student
council, your grandparents take you shopping.
You have a 20% – off coupon.The cashier takes
20% off the$68.79 bill.Your grandmother
remembers that she has an additional coupon
for 10% off.The cashier takes the 10% off what
the cash register shows.
Does this result in the same amount as 30% off
the original bill? Explain what you will pay in
each situation and the similarities or differences
between the two situations.