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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the easiest math class in the entire curriculum [/quote]

Only on the surface. I’ve posted before that fewer students get a 5 in AP Statistics than students getting a 5 in Calculus BC, only to have some clueless poster say it’s because stronger students take BC the weak students take Stat, and give some talking points they read somewhere on the internet.

For the interested here are the numbers:
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-score-distributions-by-subject-2023.pdf[/quote]

I think your reasoning skills are lacking here. The reason many students do poorly on the AP stats courses in order of significance is because 1) The curriculum is not taught well; there is no calculus, not even a bit, 2) there are poor teachers who themselves do not understand statistics, nevermind calculus, and 3) many students are indeed not mathematically adept. Put all three together, and that is a recipe for a 3 out of 5 in a good scenario.[/quote]

The post was to show that not all top students do that well on the AP Stat exam and to counter the argument that BC is for strong students and stats is the easy class. I actually agree with your reasons on why students do poorly on AP Stats.

Theres no way to avoid the fact that statistics requires calculus, whatever college board is claiming in their brochure. The question is how to teach an introductory statistics class in a way that’s rigorous and accessible or if it’s even worth taking such a class early in high school. To me the answer is yes, at least to develop an intuition on how things work, learn the basics, or get an idea on what kind of problems are encountered Arguably, even a superficial knowledge of statistics is useful in sciences in dealing with experimental observations.[/quote]

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