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
- Winter Update: 2009 AP® Program News
- AP Statistics Newsletter
- AP Statistics Course Perspective
Exam Information and Resources
Classroom Instruction and Resources
Special Focus Materials
Curriculum Modules
- Assortative Mating
- 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 SimplifiedNew!
- 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
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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