AP Stats 99-00

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Advanced Placement Statistics 1999-2000

This is a list of projects and homework that may be given or have been assigned during the course.

bulletNews Articles (Due 9/17/99-every other Friday - 1st semester) Read and write about statistics in newspaper/magazine articles.
bulletSurvey - A (Due 10/8/99) Survey of students, 2-4 questions. Data analysis. Numerical and graphical.
bulletSurvey - B (Due 6/1/00) School survey.

Daily Homework - Updated as frequently as possible.
Key:
AS - ActivStats CD
PS - Practice of Statistics (Yates, Moore, McCabe) * (October 13th to the end of the year)

Day Date Day Topic Assignments
1 9/8 Wed First day - Introductions 1 page essay on math experience due 9/10
Signed Syllabus and Rules due 9/13
2 9/9 Thur BPS 1.1 Displaying distributions with graphs BPS read p.10-21, do 1.1,1.2
3 9/10 Fri BPS 1.1 Displaying distributions with graphs
(Histograms, Dotplots, TimePlots)		 BPS read p. 23-29, do 1.3, 1.5, 1.7
4 9/13 Mon BPS 1.2 Displaying distributions with numbers
(Center, Boxplots, Quartiles)		 BPS read p. 34-45, do 1.21, 1.23, 1.25
5 9/14 Tue TI 83 Calculator introduction BPS 1.26, 1.27, 1.28
6 9/15 Wed TI 83 Calculator day 2 BPS read p. 46-52, do 1.29, 1.33, 1.38, 1.39
7 9/16 Thur BPS 1.2 Displaying distributions with numbers
(Standard deviation)		 complete homework from 9/15
"Play" around with calculator
8 9/17 Fri Review of BPS 1.1&1.2
begin BPS 1.3 Normal distributions		 BPS read 1.3
News Article due 9/24
  9/20 Mon No School XXXXXX
9 9/21 Tue BPS 1.3 Normal Distributions (PS 2.1) Begin Survey - A
BPS 1.42-1.47, read p. 44-81
10 9/22 Wed BPS 1.3 Normal Distributions, Con't (PS 2.1) BPS 1.49-1.52
11 9/23 Thur BPS 1.3 Normal Distributions, Con't (PS 2.2) Article due Friday
12 9/24 Fri Test review BPS review 1.1/1.2
13 9/27 Mon Test #1 - BPS 1.1&1.2 (PS chapter 1) none
14 9/28 Tue BPS 1.3 review (test review) BPS Finish reading 1.3
15 9/29 Wed TI 83 and Z-Scores, Assescing normal BPS 1.54-1.63
16 9/30 Thur FLIP50 program Simulation, TI use Article due Friday & Survey due 10/8
17 10/1 Fri BPS 2.1 Scatterplots (on TI83) BPS read 2.1 (p. 92-111)
18 10/4 Mon BPS 2.1/2.2 Correlation BPS 2.8-2.15, 2.23-2.28
19 10/5 Tues BPS - Least Squares Regression line none
20 10/6 Wed Residual plots none
21 10/7 Thur Review for test Surveys Due Friday
22 10/8 Fri Test on PS Chapter 2 (BPS 1.3) none
  10/11 Mon No School XXXXXX
23 10/12 Tues Redidual plots none
24 10/13 Wed Review format of PS and ActivStats
(Book was just delivered today)		 PS review book and install ActivStats
25 10/14 Thur PS 4 Introduction (Logs and Rules) Extra Credit from PS due Monday
26 10/15 Fri MiniTab/WWW in Computer Lab Article #3 Due
27 10/18 Mon Chapter 3 review for test Study for test
28 10/19 Tue Test #3 - Chapter 3 of PS none
29 10/20 Wed Review Test and Begin PS 4.1 Read p 176-188
30 10/21 Thur PS 4.1 Exponential Data PS 4.1, 4.2
31 10/22 Fri PS 4.1 Exponential Data (do 4.1 in class) finish PS 4.2
32 10/25 Mon PS 4.1 Power Data Read p190-195 do PS 4.3, 4.4
33 10/26 Tue PS 4.2 Interpreting Correlation and Regression Read p 206-214 do PS 4.7, 4.9, 4.17
34 10/27 Wed PS 4.2/4.3 Relations in Categorical Data PS 4.19, 4.20, 4.22-4.29
35 10/28 Thur PS 4.3 Outline/discuss Read p 215-226
36 10/29 Fri PS Chapter 5 Preview - M&M's Samples
(Short periods - Pep Rally today)		 PS 4.42-4.50
Review Chapter 4
37 11/1 Mon Review Chapter 4 homeworks PS Chapter 1-4 - Written summaries due Monday and do PS 4.55, 4.57, 4.61, 4.65
  11/2 Tue No School XXXXXXX
38 11/3 Wed Review Chapter 4 homeworks STUDY!! :)
39 11/4 Thur TEST #4 - Chapter 4 Article summary Due Friday. (Focus - Correlation)
40 11/5 Fri PS  5.1 Designing Samples read p. 245-261 do 5.1-5.4
Chapter 1-4 Typed Summary due Monday
41 11/8 Mon PS 5.1 (Random samples) SRS do 5.5, 5.6
42 11/9 Tue PS 5.1 (review Homework) do 5.8-5.11
43 11/10 Wed PS 5.2 Designing Experiments read 265-284 do 5.26-5.29
  11/11 Thur No School XXXXXXXXXX
44 11/12 Fri PS 5.2 (269-276) do 5.30, 5.32, 5.35, 5.37
      End of First Quarter  
45 11/15 Mon PS 5.2 (277-281) review homeworks do 5.38, 5.40, 5.41, 5.47, 5.51
Summary of Chapter 5 due 11/22
46 11/16 Tue PS 5.3 Simulating Experiments read 286-300 do 5.54, 5.55
47 11/17 Wed PS 5.3
(Indoor Track Begins Today - JOIN IT!! :)		 do 5.58, 5.59,5.61
48 11/18 Thur PS 5.3 review homeworks do 5.67, 5.73, 5.78, Study
49 11/19 Fri Chapter 5  Test (short period - report card) Read p. 310-316
50 11/22 Mon Finish Chapter 5 test
Chapter 6.1 - Probability/Randomness		 do 6.1, 6.5, 6.76.8
51 11/23 Tue 6.2 Probability Models read 317-337 and do 6.9, 6.12, 6.15
52 11/24 Wed 6.2 Prob Models - rules do 6.18, 6.19, 6.21, 6.23
  11/25 Thur No School - Turkey Day XXXXXXXXXX
  11/26 Fri No School - Day after Turkey Day XXXXXXXXXX
53 11/29 Mon 6.2 PM - independence do 6.24-6.27 , 6.41
54 11/30 Tue 6.3 More on Probability (Group work - ditto) read p. 341-359 and do 6.42, 6.40, 6.43
55 12/1 Wed 6.3 conditional and Mult Rules 6.46, 6.47, 6.53, 6.55
56 12/2 Thur Review Chapter 6 Study for test
57 12/3 Fri Test Review Study for test
58 12/6 Mon Test - Chapter 6 read p. 366-380
59 12/7 Tue Chapter 7 - Random Variables do 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
60 12/8 Wed 7.1 Continuous random variables do 7.4, 7.5, 7.11, 7.13
read p. 385-406
61 12/9 Thur 7.2 means and variances of random Variables 7.17, 7.18, 7.19
62 12/10 Fri 7.2 law of large numbers 7.20, 7.21, 7.23
63 12/13 Mon 7.2 rules for means and variances 7.24, 7.25, 7.26, 7.32, 7.33
64 12/14 Tue Chapter 7 review Study for test
65 12/15 Wed Test - Chapter 7 read p. 414-432
66 12/16 Thur Chapter 8.1 - Binomial distributions do 8.1-8.4, 8.5, 8.6
67 12/17 Fri 8.1 binomial formulas do 8.8-8.10
68 12/20 Mon 8.1 Simulating binomial experiments do 8.11-8.12, 8.14, 8.15
69 12/21 Tue 8.2 Geometric distributions read p. 434-
do 8.24. 8.25, 8.27, 8.298.40
70 12/22 Wed Chapter 8 Test - Take home Finish the test
71 12/23 Thur Chapter 8 test due Review chapters 1-8
  12/24 Fri Winter Vacation Begins  
72 1/3/00 Mon Chapter 9A Activity none
73 1/4 Tue Group work - 9.1/9.2 study - Students will teach it on Thursday/Friday none
74 1/5 Wed Complete Group work none
75 1/6 Thur 9.1- Sampling distributions (Group 1) read p. 454-469 and do 9.1-9.6, 9.8-9.10
76 1/7 Fri 9.2 Sample Proportions (Group 2) read p. 472-479   and do 9.15-9.19
77 1/10 Mon 9.3 sample means/Central Limit Theorem read p. 481-497 and do 9.26, 9.28
78 1/11 Tue 9.3 Central limit theorem/review 9.30-9.33, 9.35
79 1/12 Wed review chapter 9 Study
80 1/13 Thur Test Chapter 9 read p 504-527, Summary of Ch 6-9 due 1/26
81 1/14 Fri Chapter 10 Introduction to Inference do 10.1-10.3
  1/17 Mon No School  
82 1/18 Tue 10.1 Confidence intervals do 10.5, 10.6, 10.9
83 1/19 Wed 10.1 Choosing sample size do 10.13-10.15, 10.17, 10.26
84 1/20 Thur 10.2 Tests of significance read p. 531-556
85 1/21 Fri 10.2 - continued do 10.27, 10.28, 10.29, 10.31 
86 1/24 Mon 10.2 - continued 10.35, 10.37, 10.39, 10.41, 10.44
Summary due 1/26 
87 1/25 Tue SNOW DAY - NO SCHOOL !!!  
88 1/26 Wed mid year exams - we will not have a mid-term none
89 1/27 Thur mid year exams none
90 1/28 Fri mid year exams none
      End of the 2nd quarter  
91 1/31 Mon 10.3 using significance tests 10.58, 10.59, 10.61
92 2/1 Tue 10.3 10.62, 10.63. Read 567-577
93 2/2 Wed 10.4Type II and Type I errors 10.66, 10.67, 10.69, 10.71 
94 2/3 Thur 10.4 10.80, 10.81
95 2/4 Fri Review Chapter 10 STUDY
96 2/7 Mon Test Chapter 10 read p. 586-613
97 2/8 Tue Chapter 11 Inference for distributions 11.1-11.5
98 2/9 Wed 11.1 For the mean of a population 11.6, 11.7,11.11
99 2/10 Thur 11.1 11.12, 11.13, 11.15, 11.17, 11.19, 11.20
100 2/11 Fri 11.2 comparing two means 11.31, 11.32, 11.33, 11.37,
101 2/14 Mon 11.2 11.40, 11.41, 11.43, 11.44
102 2/15 Tue Chapter 11 review 11.58, 11.64 - STUDY - finish ditto/quiz
103 2/16 Wed Test Review Study - finish dittos/quiz
104 2/17 Thur Test Chapter 11 Read 658-675
105 2/18 Fri Review how to grade/do a part II question Finish extra credit and AP Exam packet.
  2/21 M-F Winter vacation - no school  
106 2/28 Mon 12.1 Inference or populations 12.1-12.4,12.6
107 2/29 Tue 12.1 12.7, 12.9, 12.10
108 3/1 Wed 12.1 12.17, 12.20, read p. 678-694
109 3/2 Thur 12.2 Comparing two proportions 12.21, 12.22
110 3/3 Fri 12.2 12.23, 12.24
111 3/6 Mon Review study.
112 3/7 Tue Test Chapter 12 read p. 700-716
113 3/8 Wed 13.1 Chi-Square, Goodness of fit 13.1-13.3, 13.8
114 3/9 Thur 13.1/2 13.9, 13.10
115 3/10 Fri 13.2 Inference for two-way tables 13.13, 13.14, 13.15, 13.16
116 3/13 Mon 13.2 13.19, 13.21
117 3/14 Tue Review Chapter 13 13.28, 13.37
118 3/15 Wed Test Chapter 13 read p. 752-767
119 3/16 Thur 14.1 Inference for regression 14.1, 14.2
120 3/17 Fri 14.1 14.4, 14.6, 14.8
121 3/20 Mon 14.1 14.9 and read p. 769-772
122 3/21 Tue 14.2 inference about prediction 14.11 and read p. 774-781
123 3/22 Wed 14.3 checking the regression assumptions 14.13, 14.14
124 3/23 Thur 14.3 14.15, 14.18
125 3/24 Fri review chapter 14 Study.
126 3/27