Internet Resources for AP Statistics

Before you do anything else, join the AP Statistics listserv. This is a discussion forum for teachers and college professors who are interested in AP Statistics and provides a valuable source of help and information. Just follow the link to set get started.

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com Registering with AP Central and the Stat List

Interactive Sites Statistics Teachers Home Pages Assessment

Sources for data Professional Organizations Free Software

On-Line Textbooks Resources for Statistics Teachers Webware

Textbooks Test Review Books

Interactive Sites

http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Java applets that illustrate: sampling distributions, mean & median, normal approximation to the binomial, components of r, regression by eye, and repeated measures (independent vs. correlated t-tests).

http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/~stat100/cuwu The CUWU Statistics Program Three main areas: data analysis applet with many good data sets (one and two variables), box models (simulations of dice, coins, CLT, confidence intervals, CLT), and games.

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml
Webster West's Java Applets, Histogram applet on Old Faithful data; also regression, confidence intervals, Let's Make a Deal, and power of a test.

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics

http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/probstat.html Java Demos in Probability and Statistics

http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/flip/index.html Ken White's Coin Flipping Page

Statistics Teachers Home Pages Worth Bookmarking

http://web.mac.com/statsmonkey Jason Molesky's site.

http://www.bbn-school.org/us/math/ap_stats/index.html Al Coons at Buckingham, Brown, & Nichols

http://www.edventure-ga.com/ap/ The site for Paul Myers including his Practice Tests.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/tise98/onepage.html Robin Lock's site

http://www.newbedford.k12.ma.us/srhigh/apstats/apstats.htm New Bedford HS

http://www.mrvignolini.com Joe Vignolini's page at Charlotte Country Day

http://education.uncc.edu/rglamber Rich Lambert's page at UNC Charlotte

http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/mcgrail/apsres.htm The home for Daren Starnes at the Webb Schools of California

http://mathforum.org/students/high/ Math Forum at Swarthmore.
Problems of the week; ask Dr. Math; Internet activities and projects; Math Camps and Summer Programs; searchable mathematics library

http://mathforum.org/ruth/stat.html/ Ruth Carver's page.

http://www.lhs.logan.k12.ut.us/~jsmart/stats.html Joyce Smart's page.

http://4dw.net/bgoforth/ Brenda Goforth's AP Statistics website. It includes a syllabus, timeline, homework, and test.

http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/mcgrail/apsres.htm - Sheila McGrail's Homepage

Assessment

http://www.gsu.edu/~dscbms/ibs/ibsd.html Brian Schott's Database of Questions from Georgia State

http://www.math.uncc.edu/finals/stat122x/ Past UNC Charlotte Stat. Exams

http://www.stat.sfu.ca/%7ecschwarz/quest.html Sample test questions from Simon Frasier Univesity.

Sources for data

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/ DASL--Data and Story Library

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu StatLib

http://www.stat.ucla.edu UCLA

http://www.census.gov U.S. Bureau of the Census Home Page

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm CDC data site

http://nces.ed.gov/ National Center for Education Statistics

Professional Organizations

http://www.amstat.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main American Statistical Association

http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/statistics/ AP Statistics

http://www.collegeboard.org/ The College Board

http://www.nctm.org/ National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

http://www.comap.com/ COMAP: Mathematics Instructional Resources for Innovative Educators

Free Software

http://www.winstat.com/ WinStat by Rick Parris, Phillips Exeter This guy is a wizard. His software is free, and will do about anything statistical you can think of and, he updates it regularly.

http://www.ncss.com/download.html NCSS 6.0 Jr. This is a working version of NCSS 6.0. It includes data entry, descriptive statistics, t-tests, multiple regression, tests on proportions, cross tabs, one-way ANOVA, exponential smoothing, histograms, scatter plots, and box plots. Download it free of charge to use in your statistical classes or to investigate NCSS.

http://www.vernier.com/ An excellent source for data collection tools -- LabPros, probes, CBL II's.

On-Line Textbooks

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html HyperStat Online. Includes links to other sites on the web.

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/ An excellent online textbook which includes explanations of a variety of topics in statistics and research design

Resources for Statistics Teachers

http://www.mms.com/us/about/products/index.jsp This site gives interesting facts about M&Ms candies that are always useful for developing class exercises.

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/ This website provides curriculum support materials for teachers of introductory statistics.

http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst2001/Section1/A02%20BlockingTree%20Activity.pdf This site gives a really nice explanation of the 2001 Question #4.

http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/ConfWork.html This site contains many materials put together for Statistics workshops at the NC School of Science and Math. It has many useful materials.

http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~blewis/stat/scon.html Guide to Basic Laboratory Statistics

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ Bureau of Justice. Statistics regarding crimes and victims, drugs, criminal offenders, etc

http://www.bts.gov/ntda/ Bureau of Transportation. Updated data, graphs, and charts on nationwide transportation statistics.

http://education.ti.com/ Texas Instruments Site. Support for TI-83 users as well as some free classroom exercises.

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/ This site contains lessons including problems for many topics in statistics as well as various useful aplets.

http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/other.prob.and.stat.html A site used to teach an AP Statistics course. It includes course outline, assignments and answers, data for homework, worksheets, test, projects, and papers.

http://www.helsinki.fi/~jpuranen/links.html This is my list of some useful links related to Statistics Education - Online Statistical teaching material, courses, handouts, exercises, articles, datasets

http://www.wiley.com/college/busin/stats/faculty/faculty.html Statistics Faculty Lounge- From the lounge you can use Statistics reference tools on the web, flip though a few popular statistics journals, relax and read today's newspaper, or download sample chapters of Wiley's latest college texts.

http://research.ed.asu.edu/msms/multimedia/multimedia.cfm Arizona State Research Methods Resources for teaching and learning about data analysis including Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data and the Data Gallery. Course materials, multimedia presentations, and research papers are also available.

http://www.statistics.com/content/pedagogy.html Statistics.com Comprehensive directory of links to data sources, is the site to go to when you need to find statistical data. It also gives data analysts, researchers, educators, managers and students tools to build their statistical skills and improve their understanding of statistics.

Devore, Jay, and Roxy Peck. Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press, 1997.

Iman, Ronald L. A Data-Based Approach to Statistics. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press, 1994.

http://apstat.chip-web.com/apstat/tests.html A 3-hour exam covering a one-semester introductory college course in statistics. The exam includes 90 minutes of multiple-choice questions (40 questions constituting 50 percent of the final grade) testing proficiency in a wide variety of topics