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STATISTICS

This course will be devoted to investigating the current AP Statistics curriculum and how to teach an AP statistics class. Whether you are new to the course or have taught it before, this workshop will offer you the opportunity to create a new course of study or fine tune your approach. All topics in the AP Statistics Teacher's Guide will be addressed with considerable attention to ways to prepare your students for the AP exam. We will look at how to incorporate the graphing calculator as a tool to improve our analysis of a problem. Daily hands on activities will be introduced that can be taken back into your classroom as well as various methods for teaching a single concept. Participants should bring to the institute 30 copies of their favorite lesson/activity.

Topics will include:

Day 1 

  • Introduction and background
  • Univariate data sets
  • Bivariate data

Day 2 

  • Linearization
  • Probability
  • Simulations
  • Surveys and Sampling
  • Experimental Design

Day 3

  • Inference

Day 3

  • The Syllabus
  • Grading the AP exam


Participants are invited to send questions or concerns directly to Jeanne Lorenson at lorensonj@aol.com.

Jean Lorenson - Jean Lorenson was an AP Statistics teacher and mathematics department chair at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland. She is presently a table leader for AP Statistics exam and has been a reader since the first exam in 1997. She is a consultant for the College Board and has previously taught week-long AP Statistics workshops at Wilkes University in PA and University of Delaware in Wilmington in addition to AP Mentoring Workshops. She was a presenter at the ASA meeting in Baltimore, speaking on the role of statistics in the high school and has edited both the second and third edition of the Yates, Moore and Starnes Practice of Statistics. Previously, she worked for Montgomery County Public School in Maryland, where she was a resource teacher. Jean is an experienced AP Statistics teacher, a writer for the county AP Statistics Curriculum, and a county trainer for Maryland teachers.

"Excellent instructor, problem sets right on target."