Computer Explorations for AP Stats

Idea #1—Exploring Data

Students explore bar graphs, histograms, boxplots, etc… Open a new tab to mrmathman.com/links.

Take a look at StatKey and ArtofStat.

This page has many, many options.

See if your textbook has applets.

Idea #2—Regression

Students use websites to perform regression. How will you do this?

Idea #3—Articles

Pew. Also try 538.

Idea #4—Sampling Distributions

  • There are LOTS of sampling distribution applets.

  • Sample worksheet to go with these applets here.

  • Want a cool google sheet to explore sampling distributions? Try bit.ly/MLB2016salary

  • Another google sheet, for random sampling: bit.ly/riverdocument (an updated version of a classic activity exploring stratification)