AP Statistics

AP Statistics is an introductory college-level statistics course that introduces students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Students cultivate their understanding of statistics using technology, investigations, problem solving, and writing as they explore concepts like variation and distribution; patterns and uncertainty; and data-based predictions, decisions, and conclusions.

In this course, students learn...

• to develop strategies for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. 

• to design, administer, and tabulate results from surveys and experiments

• that probability and simulations aid students in constructing models for chance behavior

• that sampling distributions provide the logical structure for confidence intervals and hypothesis tests

• to develop effective statistical communication skills, students are required to prepare frequent written and oral analyses of real data

• to produce convincing oral and written statistical arguments, using appropriate terminology, in a variety of applied settings

• essential techniques for producing data (surveys, experiments, observational studies), analyzing data (graphical & numerical summaries)

• how to model data (probability, random variables, sampling distributions)

• how to draw conclusions from data (inference procedures – confidence intervals and significance tests) 

• to 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. 

Unit 1: Exploring One Variable Data

• Week 1: Categorical and Quantitative Data Sets(1 Variable) 

• Week 2: 5 Number Summaries 

• Week 3: Comparing One Variable Data Sets

• Week 4: TEST(September 8th and 13th) and 2-Variable Data Sets

Unit 2: Exploring 2 Variable Data

• Week 1: Correlations and Regressions 

• Week 2:  Regressions and CHECK IN(September 19th)

Unit 3: Collecting Data

• Week 1: Sampling Methods

• Week 2: Experimental Design

• Week 3: Experimental Design Project

Unit 4: Probability and Distributions

• Week 1: Basic Probability and Diagrams

• Week 2: Discrete and Continuous Variables

• Week 3: Binomial Distribution

• Week 4: Geometric Distribution

• Week 5: TEST(November 7th)

Unit 5: Sampling Distributions

• Week 1: Sampling Distributions for Proportions

• Week 2: Sampling Distributions for Sample Means

Unit 6: Interference for Categorical Data: Proportions

• Week 1: Confidence Intervals for Proportions

• Week 2: Inference Procedure for Proportions

Unit 7: Interference for Quantitative Data: Means

• Week 1: Confidence Intervals for Means

• Week 2: Inference Procedure for Means

• Week 3: Review and Check In(February 27th)

Unit 8: Interference for Categorical Data: Chi-Square

• Week 1: Chi-Square for Goodness of Fit

• Week 2: Chi Square for Two Way Tables and Check In(March 6th)

Unit 9: Interference for Quantitative Data: Slopes

• Week 1: Inference for Slopes

Unit 10: AP Review

• Week 1: PRACTICE AP

• Week 2-10 - Review

• MAY 4TH(12 PM)- AP EXAM

• After APs- Project

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