I get where you're coming from, and obviously there are practical limitations on how deep one can and should go in an introductory class. But my recollection of

I get where you're coming from, and obviously there are practical limitations on how deep one can and should go in an introductory class. But my recollection of AP Statistics 15 years ago is that, because the exam and therefore curriculum was so focused on running various tests on a TI-84, I learned way more about using this one specific graphing calculator than about statistics. I got a high score on the exam, but I never felt like I understood any of it until I got to college and took a statistics course that actually used calculus to show what was going on.