Intro AP Courses

There are summer sessions of Introduction to Statistics: Inference for a Single Variable and Introduction to Statistics: Working with Bivariate Data that are especially suited to AP stats teachers who need to tune up their statistical skills. They are taught by Dave Bock, co-author of Stats: Modeling the World, a leading AP statistics text.

The course text for the summer sessions is Bock, Velleman and De Veaux, Stats: Modeling the World, with ActivStats CD. This text is a variant of the text for the main sections of this course. You can purchase it directly from the publisher here. This text is among the top choices for AP statistics. (Note: If you are a statistics instructor contemplating teaching with this book, you may wish to obtain the Instructor's edition, which you can find using the above Addison Wesley link). ActivStats is an award-winning multimedia statistics tutorial. It runs on PCs and Macs.

Important: To make sure you get the right textbook bundled with the right CD, we strongly recommend that you buy them as a package directly from the publisher at the above link, rather than from Amazon or a used book market.

Please order your text in time to have it in hand by the course starting date!

Those contemplating teaching AP statistics (or any high school statistics course) will probably want to use a graphing calculator. The textbook integrates instruction in using the TI-83 family of graphing calculators and provides brief tips on using SPSS, JMP, Minitab and the TI-89 graphing calculator.

Depending on prior experience with statistics, those planning to teach AP Statistics may feel a need to put in more hours than the 10-15 estimated in the course description, in order to be well prepared to teach this material.

What about statistics.com's preliminary courses - "Introduction to Statistics for Beginners" and "Survey of Statistics for Beginners?"

Most high school teachers who are currently teaching a Standards-Based curriculum will probably have already learned and taught the basic descriptive statistics and probability in these preliminary courses, and can start with "Introduction to Statistics: Working with Bivariate Data."