Sunday, July 6, 2008

DUE: Sunday, August 31st

I never let school interfere with my education. --Mark Twain

AP STATISTICS SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS

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ITEMS THAT WE ALREADY COVERED IN Bridge to AP Stat

Read and re-read Chapter 1 – 6

o Maybe buy a used STATS and highlight

Complete Guide To’s (1) – (10) (Hand in first day of school)

o GOOD examples.

o Calculator steps.

o Procedures

o Concepts and any “magic” words

Do any problems to make sure you understand.

o Check answers at end of book.

o Note those you don’t get to ask in September during our two day review.

Do problems in packets (Hand in fist day of school)

o Chapter 5

From Dotplot to Y-bar

Histograms & Boxplots (2 pg)

1970 Military Draft Lottery

Real Estate Agents

o Chapter 6

Ch 2 Normal model & z-scores

2001 exam question (LA rainfall)

Read and re-read “Is it Normal?” from Chapter 6 packet

o Put six ways to determine if a distribution is normal in one of the Guide To’s

SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS for AP Statistics

Read and answer “How to Lie with Statistics”

o Answer reading questions (from Chapter 1 packet)

o Send before September 1 on www.turnitin.com

(Number: 2302318, Class name: AP Statistics, Password: curious)

Do Normal Investigation (Chapter 6 packet)

o Pick a distribution that is of interest to you and has a broad range (number of siblings is too narrow -- and not too interesting)

o Send before September 1 on www.turnitin.com

EXTRA CREDIT: Stat in the news

o Copy source.

o Write up with 5 W’s, THINK. SHOW. TELL

o Use appropriate stat words and concepts.

o What is so curious that you chose this item?

o The more that you write up and the better the analysis is, the more extra credit you can earn.

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