Statistics – Agenda

Day 1 agenda

  • Introductions
  • AP Central is invaluable  –  apcentral.collegeboard.com
  • Achieving Equity – Not an achievement gap, but rather an opportunity gap
  • AP Course Audit
  • College Board AP Statistics CED and the AP Classroom
  • Brief  History, Growth, Curriculum, and the Exam
  • Opening Activities
    • Summer assignment
    • Day 1 homework survey
    • Two waters
    • Distracted driving
    • Westvaco
    • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Part I (Exploratory Data Analysis – Descriptive Statistics)
    • Bordering state activity
    • Old Faithful
    • Liberia – Canada histogram exercise
    • Penny activity on mean and standard deviation
    • 2011B AP Exam Question #1,  2015 AP Exam Question #1
    • 2016 AP Exam Question #1,  2021 AP Exam Question #1
    • Midges!
    • Barbie bungee drop activity
    • Monopoly
    • Valentine Day activity
    • 2007B AP Exam Question #4,   2017 AP Exam Question #1,
    • 2018 AP Exam Question #1

Day 2 agenda

 Part II (Planning a Study – Producing Data)

    • Randomization: Lanarkshire milk experiment
    • Wording: Largest redwood
    • Beyonce: Crazy in Love
    • Jelly Blubber activity
    • Bruno Mars concert exercise
    • 2011 AP Question #3,   2011B AP Question #2,
    • 2013 AP Question #2, 2021 AP Question #2

 Part III (Probability)

    • Tennis Tournament probabilities
    • Shooting free throws
    • Steroid testing
    • Birthday paradox
    • Twelve days of Christmas
    • 2017 AP Question #3, 2019 AP Question #3,
    • 2021 AP Question #3,  2013 AP Question #3
    • Phone Numbers
    • A Tacky Activity
    • The German Tank Problem
    • 2009 AP Question #2

Day 3 agenda

 Part IV (Statistical Inference)

    • Random Rectangles
    • Morbid Math
    • 2013 AP Question #1, 2016 AP Question #5, 2018 AP Question #2
    • Evidence to Reject?
    • Three-Point Shootout
    • The Spinning Coin
    • Geography activity
    • Globe Tossing activity
    • Significance of a Kiss activity
    • Pi-Day activity
    • 2021 AP Question #4, 2009B AP Question #5
    • 2019 AP Question #4
    • 2008 AP Exam Question #5, 2011B AP Exam Question #4
    • Tootsie Pops
    • 2011 AP Exam Question #5
    • Which Procedure?

Day 4 agenda

  • Review
    • Frog/Bunny flipping activity
    • Statistics Olympics
    • The dreaded #6s are really not bad!
    • 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018   AP Exam Questions #6
  • Wrap-up          Final questions???