Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite: Algebra II

AP Statistics is intended to help students develop strategies for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Much of this knowledge will come through experiential activities that challenge students to design, administer, and tabulate results from surveys and experiments. The students will often work in small cooperative groups to explore problems and share ideas. Active participation, in the form of individual and group projects, peer review of student work, and discussion board conversations, will play a major role in the students’ success in the course. Each student will be expected to learn how to articulate methodology, data description, and conclusions and to provide constructive comments on reports by classmates. Technology will be employed as a tool to help students solve statistical problems. Graphing calculators will be used regularly, along with other statistical software, to enhance the students’ ability to visualize data distributions and calculate important numerical results. The students will learn that displaying data and calculating statistics are valuable tools only if the students can effectively and accurately drawn meaningful conclusions about what the data tell us.

The class will necessarily be fast paced in an effort to complete the entire curriculum covered on the AP Examination. However, the pace of the course will not undermine the inclusion of important activities that help students understand the value of statistics in their own lives ­ both now and in the future. Assessments will include projects, homework, participation, short quizzes, and major tests that mirror the multiple choice/free response format of the AP Examination.