Note: This review coordinates past AP Statistics test questions with content of AMSCO's AP Statistics Review. I budget nearly a month for review. My AP classes meet daily for the entire year.
Activity: M&M Candy Review
Study aid: How to write
a perfect hypothesis test
Distribution of Free
Response test questions from previous AP Tests.
Day 1: Read AMSCO Chapter
2. Do Chapter 2 Assessment p. 32
displaying data
Day 2: Read AMSCO Chapter
3. Do Chapter 3 Assessment p. 70
bi-variate data
Day 3: 3-point
Shoot-out Simulation, Simulation worksheet
simulations, random number tables
Day 4: Experimental
Design worksheet
designing randomized surveys
Day 5: Read AMSCO Chapter
4, Do AP Free Response test questions 1998 #1-3
simulations
Day 6: Do Chapter 4 Assessment
p. 93, AP test questions: 2001#3, 2002 #2
experimental design
Day 7: Read AMSCO 5.1-5.3
pp. 98-112, AP Test questions 1999 #3, 2000 #5, 2001 #4
basic probability
Day 8: Read AMSCO 5.4-5.6,
AP Test questions 1997 #3, 1999 #5
probability
Day 9: Read AMSCO 5.6-5.9
pp. 113-142 1998 #6, Ch 5 Assessment p. 146
binomial and geometric distributions, probability
distributions and P-values
Day 10: Worksheet: Distribution of Discrete Random Variables and Simulations
Day 11: Worksheet: Expected values, mean
and standard deviations
probability distributions
Day 12: Read AMSCO 6.1-6.4 pp. 150-163
AP Test questions: 2000 #2, 2002 #5
Sampling distributions: proportions
Day 13: Read AMSCO 6.5-6.8 pp. 165
-179 AP Test questions: 2002 #3, 1999 #4, Do the Ch 6 Assessment p. 180
Sampling distributions: means
Day 14: Read AMSCO 7.1-7.2 pp. 184-192,
AP Test question 2000 #6, Worksheet: Distribution review (T/F)
hypothesis tests, normal distributions, sampling distributions vs. sample
distributions
Day 15: Read 7.3 pp. 192-197, AP
Test questions: 2002 #1, 2002 #6
confidence intervals
Day 16: Read 7.4-7.5 pp.199-219,
AP Test questions: 1998 #5, 1999 #6, 1999#2
hypothesis tests, many distributions
Day 18: M&M Candy Review
Day 19: Read 7.6, pp. 223-229,
Do 7.6 Review exercises on p. 229-230
concept of power, type I and II errors
Day 20: Read 7.7-7.8 pp. 230-242
AP Test question: 2001 #6, Do Ch 7 Assessment
hypothesis tests on slope and chi--square
Day 21: AP Test questions: 2002
#4, 2000 #1, 1998 #4
regression analysis
Day 22: Multiple choice practice test (select from Barron's, AMSCO, or own created)
Day 23: Free Response Test
(2002 B test from College Board website)