My teacher recommended that I take it in tandem with my school’s advance mathematics course (not calculus, but rather a college-level algebra course). I abhor trigonometry and most algebraic concepts, and I tend to struggle with them. Would it be possible to juggle AP stat with this class? Is AP Stat heavy in those departments? Furthermore, I wanted to take AP Psych, AP Euro, AP English IV. Additionally, I’d have three elective classes that are somewhat intensive in their own right. Would it be possible to juggle this course load or not really? Should I drop other courses to take AP Stat? Dropping the advanced algebra class is not really an option unless AP Stat has heavy algebra elements. On top of all of this I have a large senior capstone project to do next year.
The benefit I see in pulling off this double-math feat is that’s I likely wouldn’t need to take very many math courses in college (if any), the detriment being that I’d likely need to drop some classes I’m more interested in (namely Psych and possibly Euro) to balance this course load.
AP Stats requires mostly arithmetic, as a math buff I found introductory stats remarkably underwhelming in the math department. There are many stats formulas you’ll need to know, however.
Course description from CollegeBoard: https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-statistics/course-details
AP stats is awesome, definitely take it. It is the most interesting and easy AP I’ve taken/
It definitely depends on the teacher. Some teachers can teach it as easily as an arithmetic course and get by, while others can dwell on obscurity throughout all of the concepts. When I took it, I was in a class of 7 in the entire school despite the class having been offered for years. My friend and I enjoyed the class and found it easy, making 4’s on the exam, but the other ones didn’t pass the exam and had trouble with things like “Find the probability of picking this OR that out of these.”
Basically, yeah, it’s pretty simple. You’ll have to memorize a long list of steps to do on the Free Response Questions to specify every justification that needs to be said to make your experiment valid, but the underlying math behind it revolves around using calculator functions (which are really easy if you just take a bit of time to study) and some empirical formulas that may be hard to remember at first but a good teacher can explain. Just don’t get scared with all of the symbols and be sure to write down what they all mean if you start losing/mixing up their meanings. Then, try to figure out why the approaches they tell you about work. I’d say it’s ok.
To summarize, I’d recommend.