Hayfield Secondary AP Summer Assignment Cover Sheet  

Course  AP Statistics 

Teacher Names & Email Addresses  Jack Mikea (jjmika@fcps.edu) Brian Oliver (bjoliver@fcps.edu)

Assignment Title  AP Statistics Summer Assignment

Date Assigned  June 2019

Date Due  Day of 1st Test in Statistics

Objective/Purpose of Assignment  ● Become excited about the study of statistics

● Learn that it is a course requiring lots of

reading and writing

● Gain basic understanding of basic statistical

concepts

● Review statistical concepts discussed in

Math 7, Math 8, Algebra 1 and Agebra 2

Description of how Assignment 

will be Assessed 

Grading will be based on completing a review of

videos (links on following page) and completion of

the guided notes for Chapter 1 (due on the day of

the first unit test)

Grade Value of Assignment  10 points for completing the Chapter 1 Guided

Notes

15 points for completing the review of the videos 

Tools/Resources Needed to 

Complete Assignment 

You will need internet access to watch videos

Estimated Time Needed to 

Complete Assignment 

4-8 hours

Learning Goals  Student should be able to understand the

measures of central tendency and variability.

 

 

 

Learn to love statistics. Watch the following videos and write a summary (two or three paragraphs) of what you learned about statistics that you did not know before. Include examples from the videos in your write up. The summary needs to be typed. I highly recommend that you complete your assignment using a word processor.

● http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education.html (3 min)

● http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html (18 min) ● http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/ (This one is long, about 1 hour)

Get to know your text and review the stat from previous math classes. You will be using the provided copy of Chapter 1 from your textbook for this part. It not only has content but great examples as well as calculator help. I also recommend the following websites (now and during the school year) if you find you need additional help. I recommend you start by reading chapter 1 in the textbook and working through the guided reading notes.

● http://www.stattrek.com/ - Provides training and tools to help you solve statistics problems ● http://apstatsguy.com/ - Entertaining videos ● http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics - Introduction to statistics videos – careful, not all of these

apply to AP Stat

If you’re interested, here are some other fun books on statistics. For early bonus grades (3 points per summary), you can read any of the following books and provide a one paragraph summary:

● How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff ● Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best ● The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow ● The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David

Salsburg ● Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

NEEDED SUPPLIES FOR CLASS:

● Composition book for homework ● Notebook for class notes as well as a ring binder or large trapper to keep test, quizzes, handouts, etc.

THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF HANDOUTS IN THIS CLASS. ● Dry erase markers so that we can use individual white boards for class practice. ● A Graphing Calculator

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

Name: Chapter 1: Exploring Data

Key Vocabulary: individual variable frequency table relative frequency table distribution pie chart bar graph two-way table marginal distributions conditional distributions side-by-side bar graph association dotplot

stemplot histogram SOCS outlier symmetric Σ x spread variability median quartiles Q1, Q3

IQR five-number summary minimum maximum boxplot resistant standard deviation variance

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

Data Analysis: Making Sense of Data (pp.2-6)

1. Individuals are…

2. A variable is …

3. When you first meet a new data set, ask yourself:

• Who…

• What…

• Why, When, Where and How…

4. Explain the difference between a categorical variable and a quantitative variable. Give an example of each.

5. Give an example of a categorical variable that has number values.

6. Define distribution:

7. What are the four steps to exploring data?

• Begin by….

• Study relationships…

• Start with a …

• Then add…

8. Define inference.

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

1.1 Analyzing Categorical Data (pp.8-22) 1. A frequency table displays…

2. A relative frequency table displays…

3. What type of data are pie charts and bar graphs used for?

4. Categories in a bar graph are represented by ___________ and the bar heights give

the category __________________.

5. What is a two-way table?

6. Define marginal distribution.

7. What are the two steps in examining a marginal distribution?

8. What is a conditional distribution? Give an example demonstrating how to calculate

one set of conditional distributions in a two-way table.

9. What is the purpose of using a segmented bar graph?

10. Explain what it meant by an association between two variables.

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

1.2 Analyzing Categorical Data (pp.27-42)

1. What is a dotplot? Draw an example.

2. When examining a distribution, you can describe the overall pattern by its

S_____ O_____ C_____ Context S_____

3. If a distribution is symmetric, what does it look like?

4. If a distribution is skewed to the right, what does it look like?

5. If a distribution is skewed to the left, what does it look like?

6. Describe and illustrate the following distributions:

a. Unimodal

b. Bimodal

c. Multimodal

7. How are a stemplot and a histogram similar?

8. When is it beneficial to split the stems on a stemplot?

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

9. When is it best to use a back-to-back stemplot?

10. List the three steps involved in making a histogram.

11. Why is it advantageous to use a relative frequency histogram instead of a frequency histogram?

1.3 Analyzing Categorical Data (pp.50-67) 1. What is the most common measure of center?

2. Explain how to calculate the mean, x .

3. What is the meaning of ∑?

4. Explain the difference between x and µ.

5. Define resistant measure.

6. Explain why the mean is not a resistant measure of center.

7. What is the median of a distribution? Explain how to find it.

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

8. Explain why the median is a resistant measure of center?

9. How does the shape of the distribution affect the mean and median?

10. What is the range?

11. Is the range a resistant measure of spread? Explain

12. How do you find first quartile Q1 and third quartile Q3?

13. What is the Interquartile Range (IQR)?

14. Is the IQR and the quartiles a resistant measure of spread? Explain.

15. How is the IQR used to identify outliers?

The Practice of Statistics (4th Edition) - Starnes, Yates, Moore

16. What is the five-number summary of a distribution?

17. Explain how to use the five-number summary to make a boxplot.

18. What does the standard deviation measure? How do we calculate it?

19. What is the relationship between variance and standard deviation?

20. What are the properties of the standard deviation as explained on page 64?

21. How should one go about choosing measures of center and spread?