Pre-AP: Strategies in Mathematics—Analyzing & Describing Data
Expand your math teaching skills, techniques and knowledge in this workshop
Math and science teachers learn new data analysis activities to help students collect data, use graphs and numerical summaries, and communicate what they have learned.
Approached from a student's perspective, the workshop focuses on data collection strategies and effective ways to design experiments. Participants work through five exercises and share their observations and conclusions.
The workshop conforms to the College Board's mission, particularly in promoting access and equity; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards; the goals of the Quantitative Literacy Project of the American Statistical Association (ASA); the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Benchmarks for Science Literacy; and to AP Statistics topic outlines.
Goals
- Understand AP standards and the role of Pre-AP in developing them
- Improve students' ability to use summary statistics and graphs to analyze data
- Learn what students need for AP Statistics
- Appreciate issues and strategies critical to AP Vertical Teams in Mathematics and Science
Agenda
Is Michael's Penny Unusually Old? Dotplots, Histograms, Boxplots
Do Short- and Long-Rotor Helicopters Differ in Drop Time?
Grocery Store Reach/Using Volume to Predict Mass—Scatterplots
Using Volume to Predict Mass
The Least Square Lines
Workshop author
Gloria Barrett has taught statistics to high school students for 20 years, 19 of them at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She teaches AP Statistics and other courses at Deerfield Academy. She has written a book of statistical activities for graphing calculators and has served on the writing team for the NCTM publication, Navigating Through Probability in Grades 9-12. She is a member of the AP Statistics Development Committee and a Reader for the AP Statistics Exam.