The Practice of Statistics (TPS) is written specifically to address the College Board AP(R) Statistics Course Description. Now the overwhelming bestseller for the course returns in a spectacular new edition.
About the Author :
Daren S. Starnes is Master Teacher in Mathematics at the Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. He earned his M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. In 1997, he received a GTE GIFT Grant to integrate AP Statistics and AP Environmental Science. He was named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1999. Daren has led numerous one-day and weeklong AP Statistics institutes for new and experienced AP teachers, and he has been a reader, table leader, and question leader for the AP Statistics exam. In 2001-2002, he served as coeditor of the Technology Tips column in the NCTM journal The Mathematics Teacher. In January 2004, Daren was appointed to a three-year term as a member of the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. More recently, he served as Chair of the Western Regional Council of the College Board. Daren is also co-author of Statistics Through Applications, a popular textbook for non-AP* high school statistics. David S. Moore is Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Purdue University and was 1998 president of the American Statistical Association. He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Cornell, both in mathematics. He has written many research papers in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards of several major journals. Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as program director for statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. In recent years, Professor Moore has devoted his attention to the teaching of statistics. He was the content developer for the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting college-level telecourse Against All Odds: Inside Statistics and for the series of video modules Statistics: Decisions through Data, intended to aid the teaching of statistics in schools. He is the author of influential articles on statistics education and of several leading texts. Professor Moore has served as president of the International Association for Statistical Education and has received the Mathematical Association of America's national award for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics.
Daniel S. Yates has taught Advanced Placement Statistics in the Electronic Classroom (a distance learning facility) affiliated with Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to high school teaching, he was on the mathematics faculty at Virginia Tech and Randolph-Macon College. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Florida State University. He has served as President of the Greater Richmond Council of Teachers of Mathematics and Viriginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1997, Dan is a 2000 recipient of the College Board/Siemens Foundation Advanced Placement Teaching Award. Although recently retired from classroom teaching, he stays in step with trends in teaching by frequently conducting College Board workshops for new and experienced AP Statistics teachers and by monitoring and participating in the AP Statistics electronic discussion group. Dan is co-author of Statistics Through Applications, a popular textbook for non-AP* Statistics classes.
Josh Tabor has enjoyed teaching general and AP statistics to high school students for more than 18 years, most recently at his alma mater, Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson Arizona. In recognition of his outstanding work as an educator, Josh was named one of the five finalists for Arizona Teacher of the Year in 2011. He is a past member of the SAT Mathematics and AP Statistics Development Committees and an experienced Table Leader and Question Leader at the AP Statistics Reading. Josh is the co-author of Statistical Reasoning in Sports with Chris Franklin and the author of the Annotated Teachers Edition and Teachers Resource Binder for The Practice of Statistics 5e.
Josh is a frequent presenter at local, national, and international conferences and leads many one-week AP Summer Institutes and one-day College Board workshops. In addition to teaching and writing textbooks, Josh has authored a number of articles, including Statistics in the High School Mathematics Curriculum: Building Sound Reasoning Under Uncertain Conditions with Richard Scheaffer in Curriculum Issues in an Era of Common Core Standards for Mathematics (NCTM 2012) and Facilitating Meaningful Professional Development in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching Statistics (2014).
Josh was interviewed in the Journal of Statistics Education. Read his interview at http: //www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v22n3/rossmanint.pdf.
