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Summer
1-page Assignment
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I believe that students coming into AP Statistics need a summer assignment to get them used to the reading component of this course |
Desc01Summer.pdf
(68 KB)
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Calculator
22-page Packet
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I give this out at the beginning of the year. This is a packet that gives all the statistical functions of the TI-84 calculator and how to generate them. Students use this as a resource all year long. |
Desc02CalculatorUse.pdf
(2.7 MB)
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First Day
2-Page Worksheet
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What do you do on the first day of class? Collect data, of course. This is a worksheet that introduces students to the collection process using the school parking lots. |
Desc03OpeningExercise.pdf
(112 KB)
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First Assignment
2-page Assignment
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Students haven't learned any thing yet, but we can still give them an assignment. Again, the reading and writing component of the course is emphasized. |
Desc04OpeningAssgt.pdf
(76 KB)
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Overview
16-page Packet *
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A comprehensive 16 page overview of all the concepts in this chapter along with problem sets. |
Desc05DescriptiveStats.pdf
(1 MB)
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Data Plotting
1-page Assignment *
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Gas prices in a neighboorhood are examined for different months and students need to summarize what the data says. |
Desc06DataComparison.pdf
(66 KB)
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Describing Data
3-page Assignment *
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An imaginative assignment. Students are asked to estimate the number of taxi cabs in a town by examining a sample of them. Students learn that mean and median are not the only measures of central tendency in town. |
Desc07TaxiAssgt.pdf
(92 KB)
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Describing Data
2-page Packet
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A summary of all the important concepts students need when describing data. |
Desc08DescriptiveStatSummary.pdf
(332 KB)
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Density Curves and Normality
14-page Packet *
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A comprehenive summary of density curves and normal distributions. Calculator examples for finding percentiles are shown and many problems are illustrated. |
Desc09NormalDist.pdf
(544 KB)
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Density Curves and Normality
1-page Quiz *
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A short quiz asking students to answer questions about a density curve and the 68-95-99.7% rule. |
Desc10DensityCurvesQuiz.pdf
(172 KB)
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Density Curves and Normality
2-page Exam *
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A 4-question exam emphasizing analyzing and drawing density curves and answering questions about normal distributions. |
Desc11DensityNormalExam.pdf
(100 KB)
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Normal Distributions
1-page Assignment *
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The writing nature of this course is emphasized here as students must take a position in a controversial court case and justify their opinion using statistics, graphs, and normality |
Desc12McDonalds.pdf
(68 KB)
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Parent's Night
2-page Worksheet
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What to do on back-to-school night? Don't talk about how you grade. Teach a lesson. Here is a short one that you can cover in 5 minutes and gives the parents a taste of the course. |
Desc13ParentNight.pdf
(136 KB)
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