AP Statistics
Mathematics reveals her secrets only to those who approach her with pure love, for her own beauty.
Archimedes
Welcome!
Course Overview
The AP Statistics course introduces students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. There are four themes evident in the content, skills, and assessment in the AP Statistics course: exploring data, sampling and experimentation, probability and simulation, and statistical inference. Students use technology, investigations, problem solving, and writing as they build conceptual understanding.
Goal
- receive college credit for Calculus for their work done while in high school through
- the APStatistics exam,
- a college credit exam offered by the university the student will be attending;
- be able to successfully tutor other students in this subject next year.
- truly enjoy his or her AP Statistics experience.
The goal of this course is for all of the enrolled students to learn all aspects of the AP Statistics curriculum well enough to:
Topics Covered
- Variation and Distribution
- Patterns and Uncertainty
- Data-Based Predictions, Decisions and Conclusions
AP Statistics is roughly equivalent to a college statistics course devoted to the following big ideas:
Academic Dishonesty
Any action or attempted action which may result in creating an unfair academic advantage for oneself or an unfair advantage or disadvantage for any other member of the academic community will not be tolerated.
(http://sa.berkeley.edu/conduct/integrity/definition/)
Communicating Mathematically
One often-neglected piece of mathematics is communicating your results. During the course you will be given multiple opportunities to practice communicating mathematically, both in writing and orally. I believe the ability to communicate mathematically is as important a skill as being able to do the mathematics itself.
You will be given opportunities on a regular basis to present your solutions to problem in various settings. You are expected to ask questions about problems you were not able to do on your homework assignment. You may then volunteer to present your solution to that problem. On other occasions, all students will be required to present a short solution. Students are also asked to explain their reasoning and to justify their answers on their written homework assignments and assessments on a regular basis.
My Beliefs
I believe everyone can, and should, learn mathematics. I feel mathematics is more about the thought processes, which occur while solving problems rather than just getting the right answers. We will be using technology to expand our abilities to solve problems, however, it is important to understand what the technology is doing, to ensure accuracy in our work.
AP Statistics Exam
- Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:00 p.m.
- Section I
- Multiple Choice
- 40 Questions | 1 hour and 45 minutes | 50% of Final Exam Score
- Section II
- Free-Response
- 6 Questions | 1 hour and 30 minutes | 50% of Final Exam Score
- Part A
- 5 problems
- A multipart question with a primary focus on collecting data
- A multipart question with a primary focus on exploring data
- A multipart question with a primary focus on probability and sampling distributions
- A question with a primary focus on inference
- A question that combines 2 or more skill categories
- Part B
- 1 problems
- An investigative task that assesses multiple skill categories and content areas, focusing on the application of skills and content in new contexts or in non-routine ways
The exam is 3 hours and 15 minutes long and has two sections — multiple choice and free-response. A graphing calculator is required for all parts of the exam.