Textbook:
The Practice of Statistics, Daniel Yates,
David Moore, George McCabe, W.H. Freeman, New York,
1999
Overview:
AP Statistics is a college level elective course designed
to enhance a student’s high school mathematical
experience. Students are introduced to the major tools
and concepts for collecting, analyzing and interpreting
data used in real world situations. Techniques of
data analysis previously introduced in Algebra I and
Algebra II are augmented and refined in this course.
The course also develops and strengthens each student’s
communication and problem solving skills.
Course
Units:
Unit 4 Using Probability Models
Unit 5 Introduction to Inference
The
following B–CC policies are consistent with
the new MCPS Grading and Reporting Policy as outlined
in Learning, Grading and Reporting Guidelines
(MCPS, 2004). These will apply in all courses offered
at B–CC.
- Teachers
will establish clear due dates and deadlines. The
maximum penalty for work submitted after the due
date but before the deadline is one letter grade
on an A-E scale or 10% on a 100% scale.
- Teachers
will record 50% as the lowest possible grade if
percentages are used except in cases of
academic dishonesty.
Academic
Dishonesty
This applies to both written work and oral presentations.
Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not
limited to, the following: the willful giving or receiving
of an unauthorized text, unfair, dishonest, or unscrupulous
advantage in academic work over other students using
fraud, duress, deception, theft, trickery, talking,
signs, gestures, copying, or any other methodology.
Plagiarism:
- Submitting
or presenting another person's work as your own
without proper documentation, including downloaded
information from the Internet and lab data.
- Using
another student's material without prior approval.
Cheating:
- Giving
or receiving information during a test, quiz, and/or
class work assignment without teacher authorization.
- Using
hand signals, gestures, and the like during tests
or quizzes to obtain/give information.
- Using
unauthorized materials during a test or quiz.
Grades
will be based on the following:
Homework Quizzes: 20%
Quizzes: 35%
Tests and Projects:
45%
Assignment
Grading, Attendance, and Preparedness:
All homework will be
collected on Fridays, regardless of when it was assigned.
It will be returned first thing Monday. Friday is
both the due date and the deadline. If you are absent
Friday, the work is due the day you return, no exceptions.
I do not round grades at all. If you earn, for example,
a 79.8%, you get a C.
If you are absent from
class it is your responsibility to come see me before
school the day you return. Do not expect me to make
time right before or during class to get you up to
speed on what happened yesterday. If you miss a quiz
or a test, you must reschedule it. If you don’t
reschedule it I’m not going to try finding you.
Makeup exams and quizzes will be essay.
If you come to class
without a calculator you are not prepared and thus
effectively not present. This will weigh extremely
heavily in determining borderline grades.
I do not grant ANY appeals
on loss of credit.
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