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

 Webware

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

 

Statistics Teachers Home Pages Worth Bookmarking

http://www.apstatsmonkey.com/StatsMonkey/Statsmonkey.html 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://coedpages.uncc.edu/rglamber  Rich Lambert's page at UNC Charlotte

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.

 

Assessment

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

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.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.

 

Other Resources

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html   HyperStat Online Text. 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

 

 

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

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://www.e-stat.org/copss/teaching.htm Statistics Teaching Resources & Related Links

http://www.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.

http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/software/Prod_Fathom.html    Fathom Dynamic Statistics

 

Webware

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps  STEPS Module
The STEPS consortium has developed problem-based modules to support the teaching of Statistics in Biology, Business, Geography and Psychology. The software is freely available to educational institutions, and can be downloaded from this Website.

 

http://www.stams.strath.ac.uk/teaching/quercus/modules.html  QUERCUS Modules. QUERCUS is a suite of interactive tutorial software designed to tutor bioscience students in the basic techniques of statistical analysis and report writing. Written using Authorware Pro, Quercus consists of a series of applications known as WorkBooks. Each WorkBook deals with a different topic within an introductory statistics course. The first WorkBooks train the students in the use of Minitab. In subsequent WorkBooks they are guided through the analysis of experimental data, from exploratory to confirmatory statistics. Supplementary modules (ExerciseBooks), compliment the WorkBooks by providing exercises to reinforce learning and self-assessment tests.

http://www.resample.com  Resampling Stats

 

 

Test Review Books

Notz, William, and Michael Flinger. The Practice of Statistics. New York: W.H. Freeman, 2000.
http://www.whfreeman.com/highschool/statistics/

 

Bohan, James. Preparing for the AP Statistics Exam.
http://www.amscopub.com/

 

Apex AP Statistics. Kaplan.
http://www.netstoreusa.com/eabooks/074/0743201906.shtml

The Staff of Research & Education Association (REA): AP Statistics: The Best Test Preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination.
http://www.rea.com/

 

 

Statistics Jokes

http://www.ilstu.edu/~gcramsey/Gallery.html Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes.

 

Online libraries of video and other resources across many subjects including statistics.

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Teacher Tube

http://www.teachertube.com/

Annenberg Learner

http://www.learner.org/

 

A list of 25 sites for educational videos

http://www.refseek.com/directory/educational_videos.html

 

Random Stuff

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

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/X10/modules.html   Instructional Modules: Drawing Statistical Conclusions About Proportions

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/  STEPS Statistics glossary

http://www.awl.com/weiss/e_iprojects/   AWL Internet Projects for Introductory Statistics

http://mathforum.org/library   Internet Mathematics Library     

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/  CHANCE Database 

This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.

http://www.anu.edu.au/nceph/surfstat/surfstat-home/surfstat.html  Surfstat Australia

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

http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/  United Nations Statistic Division.  Economic and social data.

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

http://mathforum.org/ Math Forum Homepage.