Solutions Manual for Statistics and Probablility with Applications

by Starnes, Daren S.; Tabor, Josh

• ISBN13: 9781464156274
• ISBN10: 1464156271
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-12-01
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Author Biography

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.

 

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 Teacher's 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.