AP Statistics Course Information

• AP Statistics Course Description (.pdf/2.5MB)
• AP Statistics Teacher's Guide (.pdf/2.1MB)
• Sample Syllabi
• AP Statistics FAQs
• AP Statistics Development Committee
• AP Statistics Newsletter
• AP Statistics Course Perspective

AP Course Audit Information

• Syllabus Development Guide, Sample Syllabi and more

Exam Information and Resources

• AP Statistics Exam Information
• Free AP Statistics Practice Exam

Classroom Instruction and Resources

Special Focus Materials

• Inference (.pdf/4.5MB)

Curriculum Modules

• Assortative Mating
  • Teacher Edition
  • Student Edition
• Text Messaging

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies

• Teaching Tips for AP Statistics
• Teaching Students How to Write AP Statistics Exam Responses
• The Trials of Scipio: An Investigative Task

Course Content - Related Articles

• AP Calculus/Statistics Growth (.xls/17KB)
• AP Calculus/Statistics Growth Graph (.pdf/14KB)
• Calculator Programs and the AP Statistics Exam
• Graphing Calculator Simulations Simplified
• The Satterthwaite Formula for Degrees of Freedom in the Two-Sample t-Test (.pdf/198KB)
• Teach AP Statistics Next Year!
• Lesson Study: A PCMI Experience
• The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker
• One Chancey in a Million
• Women and Mathematics: Stereotypes, Identity, and Achievement
• Calculations Aren't Enough!
• In a World of Data, Statistics Counts
• Life as an "Acorn": My Experience as a First-Time AP Statistics Reader
• The AP Reading Experience
• Women's History: Women in Mathematics
• Engaging the Intuition in Statistics to Motivate
• AP Statistics Web Guide
• Preparing to Teach Statistics

Exploring Data

• So Much Data, So Little Time

Sampling and Experimentation

• Coke Versus Pepsi: An Introductory Test of Significance
• Planning and Conducting a Study (.pdf/980KB)
• Sampling Distributions Special Focus—MLB data (.xls/192KB)

Anticipating Patterns

• Why Variances Add -- And Why It Matters
• Three Calculator Simulation Activities
• Random Variables vs. Algebraic Variables
• Is It Normal?
• A First Look at Significance and the p-value Through Simulation

Statistical Inference

• 10% Assumption for Inference
• Is That an Assumption or a Condition?
• Why Do We Pool for the Two-Proportion z-Test?
• On Power

Pre-AP Strategies

• Adapting AP Mathematics Questions As a Pre-AP Strategy  
• A Year in the Life of an AP Vertical Team for Mathematics
• A Year in the Life of an AP Vertical Team for Mathematics, Part II
• Epidemiology in Middle School: A Curriculum

Web Guides

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 
• Mathematical Association of America
• American Statistical Association
• WinStats
• StatCrunch

Reviews of Teaching Resources

There are currently more than 250 reviews of Statistics resources, including textbooks, Web sites, software, multimedia CD-Roms, and more, in the  Teachers' Resources area. Each review describes the resource and suggests ways it might be used in the classroom. New reviews are added regularly, so check back often!

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