0 "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ("Closing Time" by Semisonic)

To the 2015-16 AP Stat Students:

We did a great job on this AP exam! This year, 68 students took the AP exam, and 36 earned a 3 or above! That's 52.9% of our students earning a "qualifying score," potentially getting college credit, and earning a spot at the EHHS Celebration of Excellence in November! That is also the second highest proportion of students passing in EHHS history (to 54.5% in 2011, but there were only 44 students in that cohort).

Overall, here is the distribution of scores: 18 students earned a 1, 14 earned a 2, 14 earned a 3, 14 earned a 4, and 8 earned a 5.

Additionally, we had an average score of 2.706, also the second highest average score in EHHS history (to 2.862 in 2012). We also had the second most 5's of all time with 8 (vs. 10 in 2012), and this was the second most students taking the exam (70 took it in 2010). We also had the most 4's in our school's history with 14 (second was 12 in 2014)!

So, if we maybe used some z scores to rank the performance each year, this year's cohort would likely come out on top! GREAT WORK! I am so proud of each and everyone one of you for all of the hard work you put in this past year! Keep up that work ethic as you move forward, whether it be to college, 11th grade, or your senior year! I wish you all the best and hope to hear about all the awesome things you're doing, or, see you in the halls in August!

To the Incoming AP Stat Cohort (2016-17):

Our work begins with our AP Summer Academy in August! (August 23, 24, 25). Remember, this is a MANDATORY component to our course. If you have any questions or you have not signed up for a time slot, please email me at carofano.fm@easthartford.org!

Here is some general information regarding your summer assignment and our summer academy. In August I will post again with the rosters for each time-slot for the summer academy.

We will complete some, but not all of, the summer assignment in our academy: here's what we'll cover in our 3 days:

• Graphical Displays: creating histograms and boxplots, by hand and using our calculator
• This will address questions 13 - 17 in the summer assignment
• Linear Regression: creating scatterplots and using the line of best fit (all on calc.)
• This will relate to questions 9 - 12, 24, 26, 27, 29, and deals with the same type of data as 1 - 8.
• On our 3rd day we'll answer any remaining questions about the concepts above, and may address some other miscellaneous topics like finding an overall mean and looking at some basic probabilities
• This will relate to questions 19-22, 23, 30

Therefore, there are some questions in your summer assignment that will not be covered in our Summer Academy; you will be expected to complete these independently, to be collected on the first day of school (this is your first test grade!) Get a head start now!

You can should the following questions independently, as they will not be addressed in our summer academy (or, try any/all of the questions if you like!):

• 1-8, 18 (bar graph), 19-22 (probability with a contingency table), 25, 28, 30
• Again, you may be able to complete more than these questions on your own--feel free to do so! But there are the questions that you will have to complete independently before the first day of school, as they will not be addressed in our summer sessions.  

I'm looking forward to working with you all and learning lots of awesome Statistics! The AP Stat Cohort of 2015-16 has set the bar high, as you can see above, but we'll embrace that challenge and work to build on their success! Until then, enjoy your summer! Have a blast hanging out with friends and family, relaxing, working, and enjoying the sun! Rest your brain and come back energized in our summer academy--and maybe do some of those summer assignment questions along the way so you're not scrambling at the last minute! :)

And feel free to email any time with questions! (carofano.fm@easthartford.org).