AP Stats course Teacher: Hans van der Zwan Handout week 4

Literature Starnes D. S., et al. (2015). The Practice of Statistics (5th ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman and Company/BFW.

Handout per lesson


Lesson 1   Sun 2022-01-23

Learning Objectives

Preparation for lesson

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Theory

Topic: Confidence Interval for an unknown Population Mean Book: 8.3


Class Activities

Discuss

Discuss

  • Confidence Intervals for the mean, \(\sigma\) known, using critical z-values
  • Confidence Intervals for the mean, \(\sigma\) unknown, using critical t-values

Homework

Exercises 8-55, 8-56 Study pp. 514-517; Exercises 8-57, 8-58, 8-59



Lesson 2   Mon 2022-01-24

Learning Objectives


Preparation for lesson

See homework previous lesson


Theory

Topic: Confidence intervals for means, sample size Book: 8.3


Class Activities

  • Repeat: Confidence Intervals for unknown Population Mean
  • Practice: Exercises 8-61, 8-63, 8-66
  • Study: Determine Sample Size for interval estimate for \(\mu\); pp. 522-523
  • Practice; Exercises 8-73, 8-74


Homework

  • See Class Activities; make the exercises not made in class and check the answers
  • Exercises 8-75 to 8-78


Lesson 3   Tue 2022-01-25

Learning Objectives


Preparation for lesson

See homework previous lesson


Theory

Topic: Confidence Intervals for a proportion and sample size Estimating other parameters based on Sampling Distribution


Class Activities

  • Discuss: Confidence Intervals for un unknown population proportion (repeat)
  • Practice: Exercise 8-33, 8-35, 8-36
  • Discuss: pp. 501-503, Determining the sample size to estimate a Population Proportion
  • Practice: Exercises 8-43, 8-44, 8-47


Homework

  • See Class Activities; make the exercises not made in class and check the answers
  • Exercises 8-49 to 8-52


Lesson 4   Wed 2022-01-26

Learning Objectives


Preparation for lesson

See homework previous lesson


Theory

Topic: Interval estimation based on simulated Sampling Distribution AP stats exam 2019: 6


Class Activities

Discuss

  • Estimating Standard Error, based on Sampling Distribution; Exam 2019: 6
  • Estimate Median based on Sampling Distribution of the Median
  • Bootstrapping
  • Overview Chapter 7
  • Overview Chapter 8


Homework

Study: Chapter Review Chapter 7, p. 465 Study: Chapter Review Chapter 8, p. 531



Lesson 5   Thu 2022-01-27

Topic: repeat Chapter 7

Go to the AP Statistics Practice Test, on pp 468-469 in the textbook

  • First make the MC questions and check your answers with the answers on p. S-33. Be sure you understand what you did wrong, if needed ask your classmates. Send your questions about exercises you still do not understand to .
  • Then make the FRQ T7-12 and follow the same procedure.
  • If time is left, make FRQ T7-11 and T7-13

Homework

  • Prepare for test on Monday 1/31 about Chapter 7 and Chapter 8

Homework to hand in

  • Exam 2018: 1, 2