BB&N AP Statistics Course Outline

Class Meetings, Homework, Tests and Project Expectations
The BB&N AP Statistic Course Outline - Workshop Statistics Ed 2 (Ed 3 will be updated later 2009)

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Class Meetings, Homework, Tests and Project Expectations

• Number of Class Meetings: There are approximately 107 class meeting before the AP Examination in May (this includes test days but not the Fall Term Examination period).
  
  
• Length of Class Meetings: In a normal week (are there any?), there are two 45-minute class, one 50-minute classes and one 70-minute class.
  
  
• Homework Expectations: Students are expected to do 60 minutes of homework for each class meeting. Because of the workshop approach of the course, students report that they had to keep up with the homework. Most averaged 60 minutes per night, but work load varied on individual nights.
  
  
• Formal Tests: Hour tests are given at the end of most units. A term examination is given in January. A two class-period test simulating both sections of the AP Examination is given a few weeks before the AP.
  
  
• Projects: Two individual major studies are completed by each student along with other minor studies..
  

The BB&N AP Statistic Course Outline - Before 2008-9

Note that in 2008-9, the 3rd edition of Workshop Statistics will be used. Details about coverage will be posted later in the year.

Resources Key: WS = Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and The Graphing Calculator. Second Edition. Allan J. Rossman , Beth L. Chance, & J. Barr von Oehsen. 2000. by Allen Rossman BPS = The Basic Practice of Statistics. Second Edition. David S. Moore.

Class Meetings: ~9 WS: UNIT I   EXPLORING DATA: DISTRIBUTIONS Topic 1: Data and Variables Topic 2: Data, Variables, and Technology Topic 3: Displaying and Describing Distributions Topic 4: Measures of Center Topic 5: Measures of Spread Project: Day 1: M&M project Test

Class Meetings: ~16 WS: UNIT II   EXPLORING DATA: COMPARISONS AND RELATIONSHIPS Topic 6: Comparing Distributions I: Quantitative Variables Topic 7: Comparing Distributions II: Categorical Variables Topic 8: Graphical Displays of Association Topic 9: Correlation Coefficient Topic 10: Least Squares Regression I Topic 11: Least Squares Regression II BPS: 2.3, 2.4, & 2.5 Project: Modeling: Demonstrating Your Knowledge of Regression in Applying for a Job at BB&N Test

Class Meetings: ~11 WS: UNIT III   COLLECTING DATA Topic 12: Sampling WS: UNIT IV   RANDOMNESS IN DATA Topic 15: Normal Distributions Topic 16: Sampling Distributions I: Proportions Topic 17: Sampling Distributions II: Means Topic 18: Central Limit Theorem BPS: 2.3, 2.4, & 2.5 Test

Class Meetings: ~13 BPS: Chapter 3: Producing data 3.1 Designing Samples 3.2 Designing Experiments BPS: Chapter 4: Probability and Sampling Distributions 4.1 Randomness 4.2 Probability Models 4.3 Sampling Distributions .BPS: Chapter 5: Probability Theory 5.2 The Binomial Distributions Test

 

Class Meetings: ~15 WS: UNIT V   INFERENCE FROM DATA: PRINCIPLES Topic 19: Confidence Intervals I: Proportions Topic 20: Confidence Intervals II: Means Topic 21: Tests of Significance I: Proportions Topic 22: Tests of Significance II: Means Topic 23: More Inference Considerations BPS: Chapter 6: Introduction to Inference 6.1 Estimating with Confidence (the concepts) 6.2 Tests of Significance (the concepts) 6.3 Making Sense of Statistical Significance Term Examination - 3rd school week in January

 

Class Meetings: ~14 WS: UNIT VI   INFERENCE FROM DATA: COMPARISONS AND RELATIONSHIPS Topic 24: Comparing Two Proportions Topic 25: Comparing Two Means Topic 26: Inference for Two-Way Tables BPS: Chapter 6: Introduction to Inference 6.4 Error Probabilities and Power BPS: Chapter 9: Inference For Two-Way Tables 9.1 Two-Way Tables 9.2 The Chi-Square Test Test

 

Class Meetings: ~15 Independent Material Goodness of Fit: One Way Tables. Probability WS: UNIT VI   INFERENCE FROM DATA: COMPARISONS AND RELATIONSHIPS Topic 27: Inference for Correlation and Regression BPS: Chapter 11: Inference for Regression 11.1 Inference about the Model. Projects: One-Way Tables: Goodness of Fit: M& M Proportions Helicopters Test

Class Meetings: ~14 Independent Material Random Variables Geometric Distribution Independent Random Variables Prepare for AP Test AMSCO AP Like Test - Two Class Periods.

Class Meetings: ~3 AP Test and discussion after the test.

Class Meetings: ~8 (Not required for Seniors) Individual Students Projects which must be placed on this web site Statistical Research Projects Improve this web site Statistical Topics Learning Projects (PowerPoint)