High School Statistics Course -- What Curricula Are Available?

[ssbmem]

Dd's plan to take Statistics through StateU.com fell through. (They didn't enroll her properly, and now it's too late to enroll.) What Statistics curricula are out there that she can do at home? I know Teaching Textbooks doesn't have it.

[TravelingChris]

Life of Fred has a very thorough book on Statistics. I took much statistics in college and this book looks good.

[Teachin'Mine]

I'm wondering the same thing, so I'm all :bigear:. I wish Saxon had a book on statistics. I believe I found out about the following free e-book recently on this forum. I don't know if it covers everything needed for preparing for the AP test.

 

http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/Probability_and_statistics_EBook

 

Would love to know if there's a Saxon style text which can be done by the student on their own.

[OLG]

We used the Carnegie Melon online course a couple of years ago and it was great.

 

https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

[KAR120C]

It's on their website as "Against All Odds". There's a textbook and a student study guide (required - it matches up the videos to the textbook), both of which are a few editions back and therefore cheap...

 

Here's a link to the study guide on Amazon... the text is easier to track down. :)

Edited September 11, 2010 by KAR120C

[distancia]

Just letting you know, if your daughter takes Statistics on her own and does a tiny bit of review in other subject areas (see link) http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/ex_cm.html she will be well-advised to take the CLEP exam and obtain college credit for her work.

 

My daughter is NO math whiz, having completed only 1/2 year of Algebra 2, and last year she studied for a month and took (and passed) College Mathematics CLEP.

[creekland]

Has anyone taken the AP Stats test after using any of these?

[DebbS]

Another one: Art of Problem Solving Counting and Probability.

[Kathy in Richmond]

My ds used this statistics textbook for self-study and got a 5 on the AP Statistics exam (the text is well-aligned with the AP syllabus). My dd took the PA Homeschooler AP stats class (using the same textbook) and also aced the exam. Both enjoyed the experience.

 

~Kathy (from sunny CA :))

[Kathy in Richmond]

Oh, and while I love to rave about AoPS, their Counting & Probability classes/books do not cover statistics to any extent. They are excellent for learning about probability and counting problems, though!

 

~Kathy

[creekland]

My ds used this statistics textbook for self-study and got a 5 on the AP Statistics exam (the text is well-aligned with the AP syllabus). My dd took the PA Homeschooler AP stats class (using the same textbook) and also aced the exam. Both enjoyed the experience.

 

~Kathy (from sunny CA :))

 

Thanks! That's the book I was originally going to go with, but couldn't find an answer key for. Now with links, I'll be hunting again later today.