AP Statistics Unit 1 Assignments
Homework Assignment
Other
Recommended: Read
“Chapter 6: How to Lie With
Statistics”
Pg. 64-72, # 3, 5, 7, 12, 13,
15, 19, 20, 34, 36
Recommended: Read
“Chapter 5: How to Lie
With Statistics”
Pg. 71-72, # 38, 40, 42
In class: Investigative Task
“Dollars for Students” NOT
GRADED
Day 1
Chapter 3
 How to display categorical
data
 Area principle and what
makes a good graph
 Frequency/contingency
tables
 Marginal/Conditional
distributions
 Independence
Day 2
Chapter 4
 How to display
quantitative data
 How to describe
distributions (shape,
center, spread)
 Shape of a distribution
 Basic idea of outliers
 TImeplots
Day 3
Chapter 4
 Re-expressing data
Day 4
Chapter 5
Pg. 90-100, # 3, 7, 11, 13
 5-Number Summary
 How to determine outliers
 Boxplots
 Mean and Standard
Deviation
 Computer printout reading
Short Multiple Choice Quiz
on Chapters 3 & 4
Day 5
Chapter 5
 Shape, center and spread
of distribution and what
do you use when
 Summarizing Distributions
formally
Pg. 90-100, #19, 21, 27, 31,
33, 35, 41
Day 6
Chapter 5—Review
Day 7
Chapter 6
 Determining a z-score and
interpreting the score
 Shifting and rescaling data
 The normal model
 Nearly Normal Condition
 Normal Probability Plot
 What is a “big z-score”
 The “68-95-99.7 Rule”
Day 8
Chapter 6
 Percentiles
 Working with the Normal
Model
In-class worksheet: “Babe
vs. Barry”
In-Class: Investigative Task
“Auto Safety” GRADED
Pg. 123-128, #5, 7, 9, 11,
13, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25,
27
Pg. 127-128, #33, 35, 37,
39, 41, 45, 47
Start In-Class Worksheet:
“Chapter 6”
Day 9
Review
In-class review for test
Day 10
Test
Unit 1 Test