I'm a high school math teacher, and I think statistics education is desperately lacking in graduating seniors. I think the space for it should come from cutting pre-calculus as a yearlong course though, with some of the concepts backfilled to Algebra 2.
There's nothing a basic Stats 1 course needs calc grounding for (perhaps Riemann sums under a normal curve but that's more for deriving than the concept itself). As it stands now, AP Stats is used for kids that don't want to progress to an AP Calc, but want a math or need to hit a school or county requirement.
There's nothing a basic Stats 1 course needs calc grounding for (perhaps Riemann sums under a normal curve but that's more for deriving than the concept itself). As it stands now, AP Stats is used for kids that don't want to progress to an AP Calc, but want a math or need to hit a school or county requirement.