Overview: Statistics is a college level course that will require more work than regular high school classes to be successful. It may require some students to spend an hour studying (or doing homework) each night. It is a fall block dual enrollment (DE) course with Wytheville Community College (WCC), after which students can elect to take an advanced placement (AP) exam in the spring. By successfully completing DE Stats you will get credit for MTH 245 Statistics I, 3 credit hours. Combined with AP and other DE classes, some students can be taking more than a standard freshman's (credit hour) load.
New to the course is a project requirement and using statistical analysis software. Because of the large use of Chromebooks at MSHS, we will use StatCrunch, an on-line statistical analysis software. The course now is very aligned with an AP statistics course.
On-line Resources and Videos:
Khan Academy is providing material (in concert with AP Central) on AP Statistics. Please click here to see what additional material they have.
A new resource, Sapling Media Learning, directly tied to our book can be found here.
On YouTube: In 44 episodes, Adriene Hill teaches you Statistics! This course is based on the 2018 AP Statistics curriculum and introduces everything from basic descriptive statistics to data collection to hot topics in data analysis like Big Data and neural networks. Please click here to see what additional material they have.
Class needs: You will need a three-ring binder, notebook paper and pencils or pens for every class. I will supply student notes and handouts that you will need to keep in the three-ring binder. You will be issued a TI-84 calculator for the class that you will also have to have with you every day. If you would like to get your own calculator, it should be the TI-84 (plus or silver edition) as they have the easiest statistical package to use. You will also be issued a subscription to StatCrunch.
Class Rules and Grading procedures: click here
Frappies are real AP Statistics Free Response Questions and are given as take-home quizzes. They are based on Jason M. Molesky's concept from his Stat Monkey web site, which has lots of great resources.
Monthly Outside Class AP Review Sessions: TBD in the spring if any interest
If you are having trouble, come in and see me. Don't fall behind.
COVID-19 School Virtual Schedule to start the year
During this extraordinary event, please use your computer, phones or chromebook to monitor these pages. This page has all of the material that we use in class: student notes, student lessons (gone over with the projector) and all assignments I hand out in class.
Our Google Classroom page will have this same material and will have all the assignments on it. The Classroom code is just below. Students will need to use our Google classroom page to do the assignments at home and then upload them through Classroom so I can get their work. All reading material is on this page and in our Google classroom, including links to our textbook. Please use the on-line PDF student note files to search for keywords to do the assignments and follow the lessons I would have presented in class through the projector, but will be presenting through Google Meet videos.
Statistics developed MSHS Survey in Fall of 2018
Google Class code: l7vus3s
Current Assignments:
- Lesson Schedule for August
- Week at a Glance for: 20-21 Aug
- Upcoming due dates, quizzes and tests
- Missing work due ASAP (Especially test corrections)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
- Student Notes handed out in class (483 kB)
- Power Point Lesson Slides to go along with the Student Notes
Chapter 11
- Student Notes handed out in class (438 kB)
- Power Point Lesson Slides to go along with the Student Notes
Chapter 12
THIS SECTION HAS BEEN DELETED FROM ACTIVE COURSE. FILES REMAIN
Chapter 13 ANOVA - Analysis of Variance
- PDF file of Student Notes passed out in class (357KB)
- Power Point Lesson Slides to go along with the Student Notes and Homework solutions in Word file:
Chapter 14 Multiple Regression
- PDF file of Student Notes passed out in class (455KB)
- Power Point Lesson Slides to go along with the Student Notes and Homework solutions in Word file:
Chapter 15 Sullivan Non-Parametric Statistics
- PDF file of Student Notes passed out in class (594KB)
- Power Point Lesson Slides to go along with the Student Notes and Homework solutions in Word file:
AP Review Materials: Click Here
In order to view the lessons you either need MS Office or to download the free powerpoint viewer (2007 version 25MB), click here
Microsoft discontinued the smaller, older copy (2003 version 2.8 MB), but CNET still has a copy, click here
