Essential Course Resources

• AP Statistics Course Description (.pdf/850KB) 
• AP Statistics Teacher's Guide (.pdf/2.1MB)
• AP Statistics Development Committee
• AP Statistics Course Perspective

AP Exam Information and Resources

• Multiple Choice Section Scoring Change 
• AP Statistics Exam Information
• Free 1997 AP Statistics Released Exam 
• Free AP Statistics Practice Exam

AP Course Audit Information

• Syllabus Development Guide, Sample Syllabi and more

Classroom Resources

• From the College Board

  • Curriculum Modules

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

  • Special Focus Materials

    • Sampling Distributions (.pdf/4.4MB)
    • Inference (.pdf/4.5MB)

• From Your AP Colleagues

  • 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
    • My Life as an “Acorn”
    • 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

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