An average is a single number that represents the “middle value” of all the numbers in a list or set.

This Statistics resource was developed under the guidance and support of experienced high school teachers and subject matter experts.

In this series we’re going to take a look at the important role statistics play in our everyday lives, because statistics are everywhere!

This course is based on the 2018 AP Statistics curriculum and introduces everything from basic descriptive statistics to data collection to hot topics in data analysis like Big Data and neural networks.

Today we’re going to talk about numeracy – that is understanding numbers.

 In this series we’re going to take a closer look at how statistics play a significant role in our everyday lives.

Today we’re going to start our two-part unit on data visualization.

Today we’re going to talk about measures of central tendency – those are the numbers that tend to hang out in the middle of our data: the mean, the median, and mode.

Today, we’re going to talk about good experimental design and how we can create controlled experiments to minimize bias when collecting data.

Today we’re going to talk about data relationships and what we can learn from them.

When collecting data to make observations about the world it usually just isn’t possible to collect ALL THE DATA.

Today we’re going to talk about ethical data collection.