L1 AP STATISTICS COURSE EXPECTATIONS MR. BURKE

Welcome to your AP Stats course. This is a very fast paced, honors (college) level course following the Statistics Advanced Placement Test topic outline as presented by the College Entrance Examination Board. You should expect an average of 45-60 minutes of homework daily, and extra help is available every day after school OR BEFORE SCHOOL BY APPOINTMENT (email me by 9PM the night before!). TAKINGTHE AP EXAM IS MANDATORY for the course, though students will not officially register for the test until the start of the second semester. IF YOU DO NOT FEEL UP TO THE CHALLENGE, YOU SHOULD SEEK AN ALTERNATE CLASS (L2 Calculus, for example). Feel free to contact me by email (cburke@hinghamschools.org), which I check several times daily, and please share it with your parents as well. In turn, I will use the email addresses provided to the school (as they appear in X2) for students/parents to send general course reminders by email, generally twice per quarter.

IN CLASS You will need the following every day:

- textbook (class copies available)

-math notebook -willingness to work with others -positive attitude

-graphing calculator (TI-83/84 series recommended)BY THURSDAY, 9/8/16

GRADING Based on a quiz grade (100 pts.); quizzes may be unannounced.

Tests will count as 2 quiz grades (200 pts.) and mini-quizzes/AP Quizzes as 1/2 or 1 quiz grade (50 or 100 pts., depending on the questions chosen for that unit).

Homework for the entire quarter will count as approximately two quiz grades.

Individual homework assignments (checked or collected daily) will be accepted for half-credit if shown within 1 day of original due date, but usually no credit after that.

Students will have the same number of days absent to make up homework, and twice the number of days absent to make up a quiz or test (so 1 day absent means homework is made up the next day, and missed quiz/test is made up within 2 days), and may be completed before school (by appointment), after school or during a study.

Homework without work shown will generally receive half-credit.

Projects will be weighted according to difficulty.

Non-seniors only will complete a post-AP project after taking the exam in May, but NO FINAL EXAM for all students in the course.

Homework, participation, and attitude will all be used to reconcile borderline quarter averages.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS (subject to change)

Quarter 1 Exploring and Modeling Data, Describing Relationships and Regression Transformations/Inference (Ch. 1, 2, 3,12)

Quarter 2 Categorical Data Inference, Designing Studies, Basic Probability and Random Variables (Ch. 11, 4, 5, 6)

Quarter 3 Sampling Distributions, Remaining Inference Procedures, Comparing Populations (Ch. 7, 8,9,10)

Quarter 4 Ch. 10 (if not completed), AP Review, Post-AP Projects (non-seniors)

Helpful Links:

*Video on Placebo Effect

*Placebo Article

Why Statistics ? (VIDEO)

AP Central Website

AP Statistics (Shortcut to past exam questions !)

Chapter 8 -- Confidence Interval Applet

Funny Correlations Website

LSRL Interactive LSRL Activity

AP Statistics Reference Workbooks (Amazon)

Shodor Interactive Activities

NCTM Illuminations (More Interactive Activities)

Sampling Distributions -- Central Limit Theorem (Interactive Applet requiring Java)

Definitions:

Statistics - The systematic analysis of random phenomena. Primarily, it is the application of probability theory to specific data, but includes special techniques and principles not subsumed under probability. Statistics is concerned with collecting and processing data, summarizing information, estimating descriptive constants (parameters), discovering empirical laws, testing hypotheses, and designing experiments in such a way that valid inferences can be drawn from empirical evidence.