Class Overview

AP STATISTICS

Course Description:

AP Statistics serves as a high school equivalent to one semester of a college introductory statistics course. This course aims to introduce students to major concepts and tools for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Students will design, administer, and tabulate results from surveys and experiments as well as construct models for chance behavior using probability and simulation as an aid. This course will integrate algebraic and statistical topics with real-world applications to enhance mathematical understanding and achievement so that every student may attain college and career readiness. This course will implement the use of TI-83/84 graphing calculators, Fathom, and Minitab statistical software as well as web-based java applets to cultivate statistical reasoning through dynamic interactive technology as to provide an environment where students can engage in concrete experiences as to promote the development and examination of abstract conceptualizations of data analyses. To develop effective statistical communication skills, students will be required to prepare frequent written and oral analyses of real data.

Course Goals:

In AP Statistics, students are expected to…

  • Produce convincing oral and written statistical arguments that use appropriate terminology in a variety of applied settings.
  • Use technology to assist in the solving of statistical problems.
  • Apply essential techniques for producing data (surveys, experiments, observational studies), analyzing data using both graphical and numerical summaries, model data (probability, random variables, sampling distributions), and drawing conclusions from data (inference procedures including confidence intervals and significance tests)
  • Become critical consumers of published statistical results by heightening their awareness of ways in which statistics can be improperly used to mislead, confuse, or distort the truth.

Class Learning Objectives

  1. Exploring One-Variable Data
  2. Exploring Two-Variable Data
  3. Collecting Data
  4. Probability, Random Variables and Probability Distributions
  5. Sampling Distributions
  6. Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions
  7. Inference for Quantitative Data: Means
  8. Inference for Categorical Data: Chi-Square
  9. Inference for Quantitative Data: Slopes

Expectations

To provide every student the best opportunity for success in this class, all students are expected to:

  • Demonstrate respect for each other, the instructor, and property of
  • Abide by ALL school handbook policies.
  • Appropriate dress must be worn. No hats or hoods are permitted to be worn in the classroom.
  • All electronic devices including cell phones, are not permitted in class.
  • Bring all materials to class (pencils, paper, binder, etc.).
  • Discard all food and drink before entering the classroom. Only water in a screw-on-cap container is to be permitted in the classroom; however all bottles, containers, and remnants must be placed in the trash can.
  • Remain seated until the bell rings and the teacher has dismissed you from class. In order to be dismissed, all trash must be discarded, materials must be returned appropriately, desks must be straightened, and students must be sitting quietly in their assigned seats.
  • Keep all handouts and graded assignments in an organized fashion.
  • Attendance is essential.
  • Exhibit student behaviors that contribute to the success of the class as a whole.

Assessment Policy

Assessments are given at the end of each unit of learning and at major benchmarks of the semester in order to determine the level of student mastery of particular concepts.

  • Tests and quizzes must be completed within the class time allotted unless a student has an official plan on file that states the specific disability requiring testing accommodation. The first bell indicates the start of the testing session. When the dismissal bell rings, the testing session is over, and students are required to exit the classroom. There will be no late passes to other classes.   Students with official plans have the responsibility of discussing with the instructor their needs 2 class days prior to assessment so that arrangements can be made to accommodate those needs.  If prior arrangements are not made, the instructor will assume that the student has decided that the accommodations are not necessary for that particular assessment.
  • Only teacher-generated aids may be used on a test when deemed necessary by the teacher and/or our math department. Other notes and materials may not be used unless indicated by the instructor.
  • On most assessments, work must be provided which sufficiently supports any procedural task and which explicitly supports an answer for any free-response task. In order to be scored for credit, all support must be legible and in pencil, organized so that a thought process is clearly and completely indicated, and an answer must be indicated.
  • At the discretion of the teacher, students may be allowed to retest using the criteria below:
  • The student must complete test corrections. The student must show all work by indicating clearly the methods used and will be evaluated on the correctness of his/her methods as well as on the accuracy and completeness of his/her results and explanations.
  • The student must be diligent in both making and keeping appointments in order to take advantage of the retest opportunity.

 

Support Outside of Class

VIRTUAL TUTORING Teams: 

FEV Tutoring, access through launchpad.

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