Resource Books

 

  1. Review Books

  2. Activity sources

  3. For your reference shelf

  4. Titles for students to read

  5. Technology resource texts

  6. Loaded Dice

 

Let's start with a true FAQ:  "What's a good review book?"

There are 5 books mentioned frequently (and one new one!):

 

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Bohan, AP Statistics: Preparing for the AP Examination, Amsco, 2000 (www.amscopub.com)  Note:  Errata page  You can order the book by calling Amsco at 1-800-969-8398
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Carroll, Carver, Peters, and Ricks, Preparing for the Statistics AP Exam, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2004 phschool.com/advanced/ap_test_prep.html
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Hinders, 5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Statistics, McGraw Hill, 2003 books.mcgraw-hill.com/landingpage.php?template=testprep
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Mulekar, Cracking the AP Statistics Exam, Princeton Review, 2002
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Sternstein, How to Prepare for the AP Statistics Exam, 3nd Ed., Barron's, 2004 (www.barronseduc.com/0764121936.html)
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NEW!!  Robin Levine-Wissing and David W. Thiel, The Best Test Preparation for the AP Statistics Exam (3rd).  http://amazon.com/gp/product/0738601632 or http://amazon.com/gp/product /073860271X or www.rea.com

 

 

Now, how about some good sources for activities:

 

*Activity-Based Statistics: Instructor Resources,  Richard L. Scheaffer, Mrudulla Gnanadesikan, Ann Watkins, and Jeffrey A. Witmer

ISBN   0-387-94597-0     Key College Publishing

*Activity-Based Statistics: Student Guide , Richard L. Scheaffer, Mrudulla Gnanadesikan, Ann Watkins, and Jeffrey A. Witmer

ISBN   0-387-94598-9      Key College Publishing

*Read footnote!

 

Peck, Olsen, Devore Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis Resourse Binder, Chris Olsen

Phone: 1-800-824-5179

Fax: 1-800-487-8488

ISBN  0534383106    Thomson Learning

**The Workshop Statistics Series is now available. A Minitab edition and the Bayesian Approach are also available.  These texts support an active participation statistics course.  The new editions continue the focus on genuine data, dozens of new data sets have been added and previous collections made current.  New material has also been added on probability, The Central Limit Theorem, experimental design, inference for regression, and chi-square tests, making the text more suitable for the AP Statistics course.  Al Coons uses this text.  His website is a useful site if you're interested in it.  **Read the footnote for even more info!

 

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, 2nd ed., Allan J. Rossman & Beth L. Chance; ISBN  1-030190-03-4 

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and Fathom  Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance, & Robin H. Lock; ISBN    1-930190-07-7

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator, 2nd ed., Allan J. Rossman and Barr Von Oehsen; ISBN  0-387-94997-6

Workshop Statistics:  Discovery with Data and Minitab, 2nd ed., Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance

Workshop Statistics: Discover with Data, A Bayesian Approach, James H. Albert & Allan J. Rossman

Yellow/Gold/Platinum Binder  (for YMS The Practice of Statistics),  Dan Yates 

ISBN  0-7167-3415-X      W.H. Freeman

 

 

Here are some good texts for your reference shelf:

 

Basic Practice of Statistics, David Moore, WH Freeman

 

An Electronic Companion to Statistics, George Cobb with the collaboration of Jon Cryer

ISBN 1-888-902-42-6     Cogito Learning Media, Inc.

Exploring Data,  by James M. Landwehr and Ann E. Watkins. 

ISBN 0-86651-321-3    Dale Seymour Publication

Teacher's Manual  ISBN 0-86651-322-1

Seeing Through Statistics,  2nd ed., Jessica Utts

ISBN 0-534-25776-3      ITP/Duxbury

Statistics:  Concepts and Controversies, 3rd ed., David S. Moore

ISBN    0-7167-4008-7      W.H. Freeman

 

 

Often people ask for titles that students might read:

 

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How to Lie with Statistics

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Tainted Truth:  The Manipulation of Truth in America

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Damned Lies and Statistics

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The Lady Tasting Tea

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"It Ain't Necessarily So" How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality by Murray, Schwartz, Lichter.  Penguin, ISBN: 0-14-200146-5

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"How We Know What Isn't So", The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich.  The Free Press, ISBN: 0-02-911706-2

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Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, by Gerd Gigerenzer

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"A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" and "Innumeracy" by Paulos

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Probabilities in Everyday Life, by McGerney

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The Arithmetic of Life and Death, by Shaffner

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The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, by Gonick and Smith

 

Technology resources:

 

JMP Start Statistics:  A Guide to Statistics and Data Analysis using JMP and JMP IN Software, 2nd. ed.

ISBN 0-534-35967-1      SAS Institute, Inc.

*Activity-Based Statistics is a rich collection of statistical activities and investigations that you can use in a wide variety of situations, from algebra through AP Statistics. Its explorations help students -- and teachers -- develop their intuition about randomness and variation. In addition, the book allows you to explore unusual topics such as bootstrapping, resampling, capture-and-recapture, ranking, bias, sensitive questions, and quality control -- topics that include modern computer-intensive methods and rich connection to everyday life.

 

**Workshop Statistics: This book is not an exposition on statistics, but rather a series of hands-on activities in which your students discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques by digging into rich data sets. Use Workshop Statistics as a supplemental text, or design your statistics curriculum around it. Either way, you and your students will enjoy this collaborative learning experience. 

 

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