Welcome to Advanced Placement Statistics!  The letter detailing your summer assignment can be found by clicking the summer homework link.  What we will accomplish during the year can be found by reading our syllabus, which will be distributed to you at the start of the year.  Below a few helpful links are provided as well as a description of the course. If you have any questions, contact me by emailing richarb@gischools.org.  If you are intending to ask me for a letter of recommendation, please click here to see what you must do.  I look forward to working with you this year.  See you soon!

Mr. Richards

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Course Description

Statistics is the mathematics of the business world, social studies, education, as well as the sciences.  This course is offered to students who wish to study higher mathematics but do not feel Precalculus will prepare them for their future studies or choose this class in addition to studies leading to calculus. 

This course includes the study of statistics, probability, and combinations.  Students will observe patterns, describe data and display patterns in data graphically.  Standardized scores, univariate data, and bivariate data are introduced.  The process of data acquisition will be covered, to include planning and conducting experiments.  Textbook: (officially) The Practice of Statistics, TI-83/89 Graphing Calculator Enhanced, 2^nd edition, by Yates, Moore, and Starnes, published by W.H. Freeman and Company, ©2003.  In practice, we use Stats: Modeling the World by Bock, Velleman, and DeVeaux, 1^st edition, Boston: Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2004, much more.

This course prepares students to take the Advanced Placement examination in Statistics, potentially leading to college credit for a one-semester class in statistics.  The exam will be administered to all enrolled students in the first part of May.  The exam is 3 hours and covers a one-semester introductory non-calculus based college statistics course. It contains 90 minutes of multiple-choice questions and 90 minutes of free-response questions. The exam covers exploring data; planning a study; anticipating patterns and statistical inference.

For more information regarding the AP Statistics test, please visit the AP Stats page of the College Board website.

To find out what scores are required for credit at a specific university, visit the credit page on the College Board site.