Q:  Where do I start?

A:  Go to the AP Stats Course Home page and download the course description and teacher’s guide.  While you’re there, subscribe to the Electronic discussion group (further down the page).  Then go the exam home and print or save the released Free Response Questions.  Use them as you teach.  And get the resource guide that goes with your textbook.  It will help your pace. 

Q:  What textbook is the best?

A:  Here are textbooks discussed and recommended on the list:

1. •Stats--Modeling the World by Bock, Velleman and DeVeaux (BVD)
   

2. •Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis by Peck, Olsen and Devore (POD)
   

3. •Workshop Statistics by Rossman and Chance (also see Al Coons page for information on this text)
   

4. •Statistics in Action by Watkins, Schaeffer and Cobb (WSC)
   

5. •The Practice of Statistics by Yates, Moore, and Starnes (YMS)
   

List contributors consistently recommend that you obtain a copy of all of these texts and then examine them to see which fits your style and your students the best.

Q:  What are good review books?

A:  Here are the discussed review books:

1. •Bohan, AP Statistics: Preparing for the AP Examination 
   

2. •Carroll, Carver, Peters, and Ricks, Preparing for the Statistics AP Exam
   

3. •Hinders, 5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Statistics
   

4. •Mulekar, Cracking the AP Statistics Exam
   

5. •Sternstein, How to Prepare for the AP Statistics Exam
   

6. •Robin Levine-Wissing and David W. Thiel, The Best Test Preparation for the AP Statistics Exam (3rd) or here with a CD.
   

Q:  What are some good books for students to read (perhaps for summer homework)?

A:  Lee Kucera posted a great list here.

Q:  Where are the summer workshops?

A:  Al Coons keep a list here.  Click on Workshops in the lower corner.

Q:  What software should I buy?

A:  This is not simple!  A few ideas:

1. •Fathom is software for teaching statistics.  It is interactive, dynamic and great demonstrating things for students.  It has lots of pre-made teacher tools and is also strong at showing simulations.
   

2. •Minitab and JMP are professional statistical analysis packages.  If you want your students to DO statistics on a computer, this is your choice.  You can demonstrate things with these packages, also.  But demonstrations are not generally pre-made and thus take more work on your part.
   

3. •StatCrunch.com is a good option for analysis.  It is web-based, java software.  That means anywhere students log-in, they can run the software.  Students can answer surveys, share data and results, join groups, and more.
   

4. •ActivStats is software that includes both a teaching/learning component with DataDesk (statistical analysis software) built in.
   

5. •Bob Hayden has posted some great advice here.
   

Q:  What are some good teachers’ websites?

A:  Here some sites to get you going:

1. •Randy Bailey
   

2. •Rex Boggs
   

3. •Zack Bigner
   

4. •Ruth Carver
   

5. •Beth Chance
   

6. •Al Coons
   

7. •Jared Derksen
   

8. •Greg Johnson has made a bunch TI programs
   

9. •Michelle Krummel
   

10. •Robin Lock
    

11. •Jason Molesky
    

12. •David Moore
    

13. •Chris Olsen has put some useful files here.
    

14. •Stu Schwartz
    

15. •Sanderson Smith
    

16. •Joe Strayhorn (this is a mega-YMS resource page)
    

17. •Josh Tabor (who teaches on block schedule--his thoughts on block, here)
    

18. •More thoughts on block here and here!
    

19. •Chuck Tiberio
    

20. •Joseph Vignolini