AP Statistics Assignments-5th Period
***NOTE: All assignments are due the next class period unless otherwise indicated***
| Date | In-Class Assignments | Homework |
| GENERAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING INFO; INFERENCE FOR CATEGORICAL AND QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; INFERENCE: CHI-SQUARE AND LINEAR REGRESSION; COMMON ERRORS ON THE AP STATISTICS EXAM | ||
| May 13 | Multiple Regression Analysis start thinking about FINAL PROJECT ideas (rubric) possible alternate assignment | |
| May 6 | AP EXAM TODAY!!!! | |
| May 2 | work on practice problems |
continue working on practice problems from your review books-also
complete the two free response problems I gave you in class bring your review books to class next week! BUY BATTERIES FOR YOUR CALCULATOR! |
| practice multiple choice test |
2007 written questions (see me to get these problems) Read over your topic summaries to help you study!!!! Do practice problems from the maroon book! |
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| April 25 | inference for slopes: discuss 27-2, redo 27-6 and discuss; reading computer output for regression | MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE TEST MONDAY-TUESDAY (APRIL 28-29)-this will count as a quiz |
| April 22 | chi-square goodness of fit; inference for linear regression (27-2, 27-3, 27-6) |
finish classwork
investigative task problem #2-this will be collected Friday Start reading over your topic summaries to help you study!!!! MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE TEST-Tuesday, April 29 will count as a quiz |
| April 17 | chi-square (26-3) |
Complete multiple choice test #1 in your maroon
book-this will not be collected investigative task problem-this will not be collected |
| April 15 | matched pairs test; chi-square (26-1, 26-2, 26-4) |
22-10 and 25-24 will be collected Thursday Finish classwork if necessary |
| April 10 | Discuss 24-11; do 25-1 and 25-2 (inference for means) |
24-8 (turn this in) 25-3 and 25-7 |
| April 8 | Read pages 421-431 in textbook; answer questions #9 and 11 on page 434 and discuss; discuss Type I, Type II errors and power |
finish 24-2; 24-5, 24-11 25-1 a-c only |
| April 3 | Discuss homework, work on 24-1, quiz-inference for means |
Due Tuesday: 24-1, 24-2 (a-g only);
23-3, 23-7 Work on test #2 from the maroon book-I have the answers when you are ready to see them |
| April 1 | 22-4 (matched pairs); Discuss inference for means, and Type I, Type II errors and power of a test |
worksheet #3-5 24-1 a thru e only Quiz Thursday covers Topics 20 and 22 (inference for means-confidence intervals and hypothesis tests) |
| March 28 | hypothesis testing for means; 22-2; Inference for Means worksheet #6 |
Finish 22-2, 22-3, 23-1 Finish Inference for Means worksheet |
| March 25 | Creating confidence intervals for quantitative variables; t-tables; 20-2, 20-4, 20-5 |
20-7, 22-1 and finish any classwork multiple choice practice test-don't do problems #18, 21, 27, 29, and 39 yet |
| March 13 | Quiz; problems from textbook (page 364 #21, 23, 28→answers); read pages 443-445 |
20-1 t-distributions worksheet calculator/AP review problems-do these on your own time→answers |
| March 11 | Discuss homework (CLT for quantitative variables); 18-3; problem #19-page 363 (Bock textbook) |
18-11 Topics 18, 19, and 21 quiz next Thursday (March 13)-categorical/binary variables only (CLT, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing) 21-14 is optional-do to practice for quiz→ANSWERS |
| March 7 | CLT for quantitative variables; 17-3 | 17-9 and 21-11 |
| March 5 | discuss interpretation of confidence intervals and inference tests; 21-16 |
21-12 TURN THIS IN BY THURSDAY!!!! 21-2 |
| Feb. 29 | 21-3, 21-13 | Inference for Categorical Variables worksheet |
| Feb. 26 | Discuss how to create and interpret confidence intervals; 19-17, discuss inference testing (21-1) |
Finish 21-1 19-13 (this will be collected) 19-4 |
| Feb. 22 | Discuss how to create and interpret confidence intervals; 19-14 |
finish 19-14 19-7, 19-21, 21-1 (a thru f ONLY) redo question #4 from quiz (this will not be collected) |
| Feb. 20 | Discuss 18-10 and 18-12; quiz; start confidence intervals | 19-2 and 19-3 |
| Feb. 15 | Sampling Distributions for Binomial Random Variables; 8-12 (turn in) |
18-10 Topic 19 preliminaries (#1-9 only) 19-1 Quiz Wednesday, Feb. 20 covers Central Limit Theorem; binomial distributions, normal distributions, and combining random variables |
| Feb. 13 |
18-10 18-12 (this will be turned in) |
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| Feb. 8 | Discuss 16-6 and Central Limit Theorem; do 18-11 |
18-2 16-7, 16-8, 16-14 |
| Feb. 4 | Discuss random variables and sampling distributions |
sampling distributions
reading 16-4 through 16-6 |
| Feb. 1 | 16-2 and sampling M&Ms Fathom activity | Backhoes and Forklifts due Tuesday, Feb. 5-this will not be collected |
| Jan. 29 | Random Variables Activity |
16-1
Backhoes and Forklifts due Tuesday, Feb. 5-this will not be collected |
| Jan. 23 | Topics 12-15 test | no homework! |
| Jan. 18 | Do activity 15-8 and turn in; discuss normalcdf function on calculator; discuss binomialpdf and binomialcdf function |
Study for Topics 12-15 test (30 multiple choice) Topics 12-15 Unit Summary-this will NOT be collected, it is simply to help you study for your upcoming test (finals week)-at this point you should be able to do all but problem #14 (which will not be included on test) |
| Jan. 15 | Discuss homework (discrete and continuous distributions, binomial distributions and the calculator, normal distributions and the normal probability table); Activity 15-5 |
Activity 15-6 Binomial and Geometric Probability Distributions and the Calculator-problem #1 (from first section) and problem #1 (from second section) only Take-Home Exam due Friday, Jan. 18 Topics 12-15 Unit Summary-this will NOT be collected, it is simply to help you study for your upcoming test (finals week)-at this point you should be able to do all but problem #7 and problem #14 |
| Jan. 11 | Discuss Discrete Random Variables homework (binomial distributions) |
answers
to Theoretical Probability Problems 15-3 and 15-4 Binomial and Geometric Distributions Binomial, Geometric and Normal Distributions Take-Home Exam due Friday, Jan. 18 |
| Jan. 8 | Discuss homework-independent events, conditional
probability, probability rules Theoretical Probability Problems #1-discuss how to 'count' Discrete Random Variables #1-discuss how to find the mean and standard deviation of a random variable |
Finish
Theoretical Probability Problems and
Discrete Random Variables 15-1 Topics 12-15 Unit Summary-this will NOT be collected, it is simply to help you study for your upcoming test (finals week) |
| Dec. 20 | Probability Problems-area diagrams, tree diagrams, venn diagrams |
finish Probability Problems I
from last class;
Probability Problems II;
Probability Problems III Selected solutions to Probability I, Probability II, and Probability III |
| Dec. 18 | Probability Simulations |
Probability Problems I
(problems #1-5 only) also read the link from Friday if you haven't already |
| Dec. 14 | Read Chapter 14 through page 280 (Stats: Modeling the World) | |
| Dec. 11 | 14-1 and 14-2 | 14-3, 14-11; try worksheet problems |
| Dec. 7 | discuss homework (blocking); outline Chapter 13 from Stats: Modeling the World; quiz |
Topic 14 preliminaries 14-7; 14-10 (a - e only!) |
| Dec. 4 | discuss homework problems and design an experiment to show that smoking causes lung cancer |
Experimental Design AP problems Partner Quiz covers sampling and experimental design Friday |
| Nov. 30 | Discuss Sampling and Bias; Problems from Stats: Modeling the World | 13-5, 13-6, 13-17 |
| Nov. 27 | Design an experiment; Outline Chapter 12 (sampling) from Stats: Modeling the World | 12-16, 12-17, 13-4, Sampling and Bias worksheet |
| Nov. 20 | Discuss biased and unbiased sampling; SRS, systematic sampling, stratified sampling; 12-4 and 12-25 |
Multiple Choice test corrections due tomorrow (Wednesday)-either find me
or leave in my mailbox Finish 12-25 if necessary 13-1 thru 13-3 due Tuesday after Thanksgiving |
| Nov. 16 | Topics 7-11 test | 12-3 and 12-7 due Tuesday |
| Nov. 14 | 12-1 and 12-2; sampling activity; review for test with problems from Stats: Modeling the World textbook | Topics 7-11 Summary due Friday, Nov. 16-book and test this day also |
| Nov. 9 | Discuss homework; work on problems from Stats: Modeling the World textbook |
Linearizing Data worksheet Investigative Task #3 due Wednesday, Nov. 14 Topics 7-11 Summary due Friday, Nov. 16-book and test this day also |
| Nov. 6 | Discuss straightening data and which transformations lead to which types of functions; Linearizing Data II worksheet |
Finish worksheet; identify formulas from column one of formula worksheet; Do Question #9 from Topic Summary for Friday |
| Nov. 2 | Straightening data (M&Ms activity) and in Fathom | 11-4, 11-5, Linearizing Data worksheet |
| Oct. 30 | pop quiz | Work on missing assignments or Topic Summary; nothing due for next class |
| Oct. 26 | outliers and influential points; residual plots | Finish
Matching
Descriptions to Scatterplots 11-3, 11-12, 11-15 |
| Oct. 23 | Outliers and Influential Points | 11-1 and 11-2; multiple choice test corrections (if you choose) |
| Oct. 19 | discuss proportion of variability; Scatterplots and Least-Squares Regression worksheet | 10-4, 10-5, 10-12, 10-14 (use the program from 9-7) Start working on corrections to the multiple choice questions from the test (corrections due Friday next week-we'll discuss what is expected in class on Tuesday) |
| Oct. 16 | 10-1; Least-Squares Regression; 10-2, 10-3 | Finish 10-2 and 10-3 9-7, 9-15 |
| Oct. 12 | 9-1; correlation coefficients; 9-2 through 9-4, 96 | finish 9-2 through 9-4 and 9-6 |
| Oct. 10 | Simpson's paradox (7-20, 7-21); association between two quantitative variables (8-1 through 8-4) | 7-11 (this will be collected) Finish 8-1 through 8-4 |
| Oct. 5 | Topics 1-6 test | 7-14 |
| Oct. 2 | Discuss conditional distributions, independence, relative risk; do 6-11 and turn in!! | Topics 1-6 Unit Summary due Friday, Oct. 5-TEST (topics 1-6) this day also-books will be collected this day also (topic 1 won't be checked)! |
| Sept. 28 | Histograms from Boxplots; Start topic 7: 7-1 through 7-5, 7-12, 7-25 | Finish 7-1 through 7-5, 7-12, 7-25 Investigative Task #2 due Tuesday, Oct. 2 |
| Sept. 25 | Discuss z-scores; how to find outliers using the empirical rule and using the five-number summary; work on investigative task #2 | Homework: 6-13 (skip question a,
make boxplots on calculator); read page 137, do Topic 7 Preliminaries
(pages 138-139) Fathom Activity due by Friday Investigative Task #2 due Tuesday, Oct. 2 Topics 1-6 Unit Summary due Friday, Oct. 5-test this day also |
| Sept. 21 | Discuss variability and estimating standard deviation; z-scores activity; matching plots to variables worksheet; start topics 6-1 through 6-3 | Finish topics 6-1 through 6-3; 5-16, 5-18, 5-19 Investigative Task #1 due Tuesday, Sept. 25 RUBRIC |
| Sept. 18 | Discuss effect on mean and standard deviation of adding/multiplying a constant to a set of data; discuss difference between population and sample standard deviations; discuss appropriate measures of center for skewed and symmetric distributions; do activity 5-5; discuss empirical rule for mound-shaped, symmetric distributions; activity 5-22 | finish activity 5-22 if necessary; 5-3, 5-4, 5-6, 5-7, 5-20 |
| Sept. 14 | Discuss homework, work with Fathom, Means and Medians worksheet; discuss relationship between mean and median in distributions of different shapes; calculating standard deviation | Finish Calculating Standard Deviation worksheet (at
least #1 and #2, #3 is optional) 3-17, 4-16 5-1, 5-2, 5-11 |
| Sept. 11 | Discuss 3-5 (histograms) and 3-11 (stemplots); Topic 4 Preliminaries; Activities 4-2 through 4-4 | 3-13 and 3-15 (these will be collected!) 4-6 and 4-12 |
| Sept. 7 | Discuss 3-1 and 3-2 and how to describe quantitative distributions of data (center, shape, spread); work on 2-1 through 2-4 | 3-5 through 3-7, 3-9, 3-11, 4-1 due Tuesday. Finish 2-1 through 2-4 on your own time. |
| Sept. 5 | Collect class data; 2-1 and 2-2 | 1-11 2-5: This will be collected; make your dotplots by hand (not on the calculator) |