IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Please select only one of the textbooks below for use in your workshop.
Statistics
Stats: Modeling the World
3rd Edition AP* Edition ©2010
Bock, Velleman, De Veaux
For AP* statistics courses
- The most cited text in The College Board's AP* statistics sample syllabi.
- Award-winning author team.
- Applauded for its readability—your students will read this book!
- Leads with practical data analysis and graphics, encouraging students to "do statistics" and "think statistically" from the start.
- New TI-Nspire™ content integrated throughout the text, including margin pointers describing the new calculator activities.
- Updated data used in examples and exercises.
- Hundreds of new exercises, including more single-concept exercises, prepare students for the more comprehensive exercises.
- Video Lectures for each chapter of the text show the authors delivering a 7–10 minute review of the important points of the chapter. Instructors then show students how to solve statistics problems by carefully working through an example from the text using the authors' hallmark Think/Show/Tell problem-solving method.
- Instructor Resource CD-ROM and ActivStats CD-ROM packaged with every new copy of the Teacher's Edition.
- Fully updated AP* teacher and student supplements also available—including AP* Statistics Test Prep workbook, Teacher's Edition, Teacher Solutions Manual, Test Bank and Teacher Resource Manual, TestGen, and Graphing Calculator Manual.
- MathXL® for School: A powerful (optional), online homework, tutorial, and assessment system. Teachers can create, edit and assign online homework and tests using algorithmically generated exercises correlated at the objective level to the textbook. Student work is tracked in an online gradebook. (Available as a renewable subscription on an annual basis only.)
- AP* Test Prep for Stats
- Newly revised to correlate to the new 3e AP* edition textbook. Sample exams including answers and explanation.
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Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
2nd Edition ©2009
Agresti, Franklin
- Teaches students to ask and answer interesting questions by way of examples, exercises, simulations, and hands-on activities.
- Connects statistics to the real world.
- More than 100 exercises per chapter.
- Focuses on students' needs for clear and accessible explanations.
- Innovative 5-step example format.
