1. Brookline High School Kari Buys
AP Statistics
Brookline High School
Kari Buys

2. About Me From Michigan Lived in Chicago Moved to Boston 4 years ago
Went to undergrad at Calvin College (Math and Psychology Major)
Lived in Chicago
Spent one year in a Ph.D. program studying Cognitive Psychology and Advanced Statistics
Masters from Northwestern University (Secondary Math Education)
Moved to Boston 4 years ago
Teaching at BHS 4 years
Taught Statistics for 2 years
First year teaching AP Statistics

3. About This Class The students are a great class!
Incredibly friendly and sweet (and entertaining)!
Very hard working!
Introductory study of how numerical data may be analyzed as an aid to decision-making.
Topics include probability, frequency distributions, random variables, sampling techniques, binomial experiments, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, linear regression and coefficient of correlation.
AP course - requires more work outside of class
Reading textbook, taking notes, coming in for extra help.

4. AP Test Wednesday May 16th, 2012
Students are expected to take the AP test.
AP Central has lots of resources for students.

5. About Grades (65%) Tests/Quizzes (10%) Homework (20 %) Projects
Two equally weighted tests per quarter (first one tomorrow)
Multiple quizzes - practice for the test.
I don’t want to penalize for practice, so at the end of the quarter I only count the quizzes that improve the students’ test/quiz grade.
Students cannot take a quiz if absent (can get a copy).
(10%) Homework
Most are graded based on effort not accuracy.
Collect about once a week to grade.
(20 %) Projects
Two per quarter.
Focus on applying the statistics we learn in class.
(5%) Warmups
Daily review problem at the beginning of class

6. About Getting Help/Information
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Math Help Center: Rm. 141, open every morning 7:30-8:15am