AP Statistics Information and Summer Assignment
Supplies:
• 2” 3-Ring binder with dividers (there will be 11 units)
• Loose leaf paper
• Notecards to make flashcards throughout the year
• Pencils with erasers
• Pens
• Highlighters
• Calculator: TI-84 Plus or TI-84 Plus Silver or TI-84 Plus C Silver graphing calculator (TI-83 series
calculators will not have all of the statistical features that we will be using in class. You can get
by with a TI-83. Just know that at times you will be doing a more complicated process than
those with a TI-84.) TI-N’Spire is also acceptable.
• AP Statistics All Access Book + Online + Mobile, By Robin Levine-Wissing and David Thiel,
ISBN: 978-0-7386-1058-0 ($18.95)
**Please have your materials and calculator with you on the first day of school. **
Highly recommended:
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Barron’s AP Statistics Flashcards box 2nd Edition ISBN-10: 1-4380-7401-8 ($18.99)
We will use these all year, not just during April review. These can be purchased online
or at a bookstore.
What You Can Expect:
• Direct teaching (teacher-led notes)
• Student learning tasks (group & individual tasks that will reveal statistical relationships)
• Daily homework (sometimes reading & notes, sometimes problems to work, sometimes both)
• Quizzes that will provide feedback on what you need to work on before the test.
• Tests which include all of the material in the unit.
• To learn how to study. You will not receive a review sheet for assessments.
• Reading, both in the textbook and in problem situations.
• Showing your work. Mrs. White will role-model the expectations when working problems in class.
• Explaining, in words, how the numbers relate to the problem situation. Mrs. White will role-model
the expectations when working problems in class.
• Learning will start on the first day of school.
Ways to Succeed in this Class:
• Take notes every day and keep them organized by date in your binder.
• Fully complete homework every day, putting forth your best effort. Check your solutions. Ask
questions regarding your homework during extra help.
• Read all of your notes and/or homework from the current unit every day. In other words, study
every day and not just the night before the assessment. Ask for clarification, as needed, well in
advance of the test.
• Get help when you are confused by asking questions during class and/or attending help sessions.
• Quiz yourself using the Barron’s flashcards to study for all tests.
• Read your textbook.
The assignment will be a required assignment once school starts, and will be given in addition to daily
homework. It is to your benefit to complete this during the summer.
Use the following internet resource to define the terms below. You will have to click the drop down
menu to locate each word. A flashcard should be created for each term below (the term on one side
and the definition and/or formula on the back). http://stattrek.com/Help/Glossary.aspx
Unit 1 Vocabulary
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Individuals
Variable
Categorical variable
Quantitative variable
census
Distribution
inference
Frequency table
Relative frequency table
Roundoff error
Pie chart
Bar graph
Two-way table
Marginal distribution
Conditional distribution
Segmented bar graph
Side-by-side bar graph
Association
Simpson’s paradox
Dotplot
Shape (mode)
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Center
Spread (range)
Outlier
Symmetric
Skewed to the right
Skewed to the left
Unimodal
Bimodal
Multimodal
Stemplot
Splitting stems
Back-to-back stemplot
Histogram
Mean
Median
Interquartile range (IQR)
Five-number summary
Boxplot
Standard deviation
Variance
Types of Graphs
1. Draw a dot plot of the data. Then calculate the sample mean, median, and standard deviation.
3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 1, 5, 9, 8, 7, 9, 4, 1, 2, 6, 1, 9, 6, 6, 4
2. The data below are the amount of time spent on the internet (in minutes) on a particular day for 30
students. Draw a histogram of the data. Use 7 groups. Then calculate the sample mean, median,
and standard deviation.
7, 42, 72, 20, 43, 75, 24, 44, 77, 25, 45, 78, 25, 46, 79, 28,
47, 83, 28, 48, 87, 30, 48, 88, 32, 50, 135, 35, 51, 151
3. Calculate the sample mean, standard deviation, the five-number summary, and IQR. Then draw a
box plot of the data.
19, 22, 23, 23, 23, 26, 26, 27, 28, 29, 29, 31, 32