The Practice of Statistics for the AP® Exam, Teacher's Edition - Softcover

Starnes, Daren; Tabor, Josh; Yates, Daniel S.; Moore, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464154015 ISBN 13: 9781464154010

Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

The textbook provides a comprehensive guide to teaching AP® Statistics effectively for new and experienced teachers alike. The 5th edition offers an introduction with general advice for teaching AP® Statistics, a pacing guide for the chapter featuring Learning Objectives and suggested homework assignments, and other teaching resources.

Features include Teaching Tips, notes about AP® Exam common errors and using the AP® Exam formula Sheet, and integrated notes on extra resources that are available.

About this title

About the Author

Daren S. Starnes is Master Teacher in Mathematics at the Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. Daren has led numerous one-day and weeklong AP Statistics institutes for new and experienced AP teachers, and he has been a reader, table leader, and question leader for the AP Statistics exam. In January 2004, Daren was appointed to a three-year term as a member of the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. More recently, he served as Chair of the Western Regional Council of the College Board.

Josh Tabor has taught general and AP statistics to high school students for more than 18 years, most recently at Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson Arizona. In recognition of his outstanding work as an educator, Josh was named one of the five finalists for Arizona Teacher of the Year in 2011. He is a past member of the SAT Mathematics and AP Statistics Development Committees and an experienced Table Leader and Question Leader at the AP Statistics Reading.

Daniel S. Yates has taught Advanced Placement Statistics in the Electronic Classroom affiliated with Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to high school teaching, he was on the mathematics faculty at Virginia Tech and Randolph-Macon College. Named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1997, Dan is a 2000 recipient of the College Board/Siemens Foundation Advanced Placement Teaching Award.

David S. Moore is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Purdue University and was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. He has also served as president of the International Association for Statistical Education and has received the Mathematical Association of America’s national award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1464154015
• ISBN 13: 9781464154010
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5