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Course Description: AP Statistics introduces students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, EOC VOCATS
analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Students observe patterns and departures from patterns,
decide what and how to measure, produce models using probability and simulation, and confirm models
using probability and simulation, and confirm models. Appropriate technology, from manipulatives to AP/IB Teacher-made
calculators and application software, should be used regularly for instruction and assessment. final exam
THIS PACING GUIDE IS FOR AN AP STATISTICS: SPRING TERM.
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Day Date SCS Objectives Essential Questions Content Tasks/Strategies
21 Given a set of data from a survey, Lab activities: Jelly
what is the population, sample? blubbers, jumping frogs,
What are the explanatory and CHAPTER 5:
response variables? etc
22 Producing Data:
3.01, 3.02, 3.03, Is a given study observational or
Designing samples,
experimental? Workshop Statistics
3.04 Given a study, outline a designs, cautions,
23 Activity-Based Statistics
randomized design of an experiments, planning a
appropriate experiment. Graphing calculator
study
How would you use random digits Project
24 to simulate a given study? TEST CHAPTER 5
35 Given a sample or
experiment, how do you
describe the bias and
36 variability of a statistic in
terms of the mean and spread CHAPTER 9:
37 of the sampling distribution? Sampling distributions Lab activity
3.06 Sampling variability “Workshop Statistics”
Given an SRS of size n with a
Describing sampling Graphing Calculator
38 3.07 given mean and standard
distribution Quiz
3.08 deviation of a population, how
is the mean and standard Sample proportions Unit assessment
39 deviation of a sample mean Sample means TEST CHAPTER 9
calculated? Central Limit Theorem
40 What effect does the increase
of the sample size have on
the standard deviation?
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Cumulative Review
Cumulative Assessment
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Day Date SCS Objectives Essential Questions Content Tasks/Strategies
What is meant by “95%
45 confidence”?
Given a normal distribution with a
known standard deviation, how is CHAPTER 10:
46 a confidence interval calculated?
Statistical Confidence
What is the sample size required
to obtain a confidence interval of Intervals
Lab activities
47 a specified margin of error when
Workshop Statistics
given the confidence level? Sample size; Cautions
Given a study, what is the null Activity-Based Statistics
Test of Significance;
48 3.09, 3.10 and alternate hypothesis? What
Hypothesis
Graphing calculator
test of significance would be Quiz
appropriate? What assumptions p-values; Tests for
Project
49 must be met to use the given
statistical procedure?
population mean
TEST CHAPTER 10
Using significance tests
What effect does increasing the
size of the sample have on the Type I and Type II error;
50 power when the significance level power
remains fixed?
What is a Type I error?
51 What is a Type II error?
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Chapter 11:
T tests; Matched Pairs T
53 tests
Robustness; Comparing
Given a problem, is
54 two means
inference about the mean
Comparing two means
or comparing two means
Lab activity
55 necessary?
Workshop Statistics
3.09, 3.10 Given a study, is a one-
Graphing Calculator
56 CHAPTER 12: Quiz
sample, matched pairs, or
Inference for a population TEST CHAPTER 11, 12
two-sample procedure
proportion
57 needed? Explain your
Comparing proportions;
choice.
choosing sample size
Comparing two
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proportions
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Under what circumstances is a
60 chi-square test appropriate to
use?
What conditions have to be met CHAPTER 13: Lab activity
61 to use the chi-square distribution? Test for Goodness of Fit Workshop Statistics
What is the null hypothesis that
3.10 the chi-square statistic tests in a Inference in a Two Way Graphing Calculator
62 two-way table? Table; Chi-Square Test Quiz
If a test is significant, what are the TEST CHAPTER 13
most important deviations
between the observed and
63 expected counts?
Given a regression setting,
64 explain the meaning of the slope
CHAPTER 14:
B of the true regression line.
Given a computer output for a Inference for Regression;
Inference about the Lab activity
65 regression, what is the slope and
Graphing Calculator
intercept of the least-squares model
3.09, 3.10, 4.01 line? What are their standard
Inference about Project
errors and the standard error of Quiz
66 the line? Prediction Regression
What is the difference between a assumptions TEST CHAPTER 14
confidence interval for the mean
67 response and a prediction interval
for an individual response?
Day Date SCS Objectives Essential Questions Content Tasks/Strategies
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AP EXAM REVIEW
71 There is a two – three
week window remaining
for review depending
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scheduled.
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Major project assigned for
76 the remainder of school
term/or Unit 15: Analysis
of Variance
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Cumulative Review
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Final Exams
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