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AP Exam Review: Activity Gallery Walk
Every lesson this year started students out with an experience . After the experience, we helped formalize our students learning by...

Math Medic
Apr 19, 2019


AP Statistics Exam Review Strategy: The Practice Exam
One of the best strategies to help students prepare for the AP Statistics Exam is, well, an AP Statistics Exam. One that is real deal...

Math Medic
Apr 16, 2019


How to CRUSH the AP Stats Free Response
It's the end of the year and you are trying to get ready for the AP Statistics Exam. You know that the free response is worth 50% of the...

Luke Wilcox
Apr 14, 2019


Name That Significance Test
It's the end of the year and you are trying to get ready for the AP Statistics Exam. You know that one of the free response questions is...

Math Medic
Apr 14, 2019


Top 10 AP Statistics Exam Tips
It's the end of the year and you are trying to get ready for the AP Statistics Exam. What are the most important tips and strategies for...

Math Medic
Apr 14, 2019


How I am using the Math Medic AP Stats Review Course
By Josh Tabor Like everyone else, I am constantly tweaking the way I teach AP Statistics, including how I manage the crucial time before...

Math Medic
Mar 24, 2019


Statistics Inference Exam – Student Created
We all know that statistical inference is the end goal of AP Statistics. Inference also makes up the largest part of the AP Exam (up to...

Math Medic
Mar 17, 2019


Falling Behind in AP Stats? Here’s What to Do.
Teaching remote. Reduced contact time with students. A polar vortex leads to 12 snow days. It’s your first year teaching AP Stats and you...

Math Medic
Mar 9, 2019


What's New from College Board for AP Statistics in 2019-2020
The College Board has recently announced some changes for AP Statistics for next school year. They also released a short video ...

Math Medic
Feb 20, 2019


Sneak Peek of the Math Medic AP Statistics Exam Review Course
A good review is critical for student success on the AP Exam. The Math Medic AP Statistics Exam Review Course is the best way to prepare!

Math Medic
Feb 10, 2019


Is the House of Representatives actually representative?
The 116th Congress is the most diverse in history. I have become absorbed by reading the stories of incredible newly elected officials...

Math Medic
Jan 20, 2019


Baseball Salaries and the Central Limit Theorem
This guest blog post comes to us from superstar AP Stats teacher Leigh Nataro. Sampling distributions are at the heart of statistical...

Math Medic
Jan 16, 2019


Turn your old notes into an Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) lesson
This year, in addition to teaching AP stats, we're teaching Algebra 2. I've been teaching Algebra 2 for the past five years using sort of...

Math Medic
Dec 9, 2018


How does this work in a math classroom?
I have a secret to tell you. Please don't tell all the other stats teachers. They'll kick me out of the club. But believe it or not, I...

Math Medic
Dec 8, 2018


Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL)
Several years ago, the Math Medic created a new on-level Stats course targeted toward Seniors at East Kentwood High School. We wanted the...

Math Medic
Oct 30, 2018


Introducing Independence: Does Mrs. Gallas choke under pressure?
Testing if two events are independent is tough. And with a formula like P(A) = P(A|B) = P(A|not B) it can be very confusing! Our students...

Math Medic
Oct 28, 2018


Help Students Interpret r^2.
During my first few years of teaching, I treated the interpretation of r^2 as a fill-in-the-blank exercise: "__________ percent of the...

Math Medic
Oct 12, 2018


Stratified Random Sample vs Cluster Sample
For starters, students need to understand the most fundamental idea of good sampling: the simple random sample (SRS). Hopefully you used...

Math Medic
Oct 9, 2018


A Math Lesson For MLK Day
This lesson asks the question, "Why do some schools do better than others?" Learning Targets Describe the relationship between two...

Math Medic
Jan 11, 2018


Response Bias Project
Would your decision to eat a delicious hamburger change if you knew the nutrition information? Would you admit to texting and driving in...

Math Medic
Oct 17, 2017
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