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Stats Medic
Jan 15, 2017
Why Bother with z-scores and Table A?
We use z-scores and Table A to help us find area under normal distributions (P-value) so that we can make a conclusion to a significance...

Stats Medic
Jan 13, 2017
Interpret the z-score (Like it’s Your Job)
Most of our students will have no trouble calculating a z-score. But interpreting the z-score is a much more important concept for their...

Stats Medic
Dec 10, 2016
How to Write a Great Test for AP Statistics
Use the same format as the AP Exam The AP Statistics Exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions and 6 free response questions....

Stats Medic
Dec 10, 2016
How to Grade Your AP (Statistics) Tests
You have given a great test . Â Now it is time to grade it. Grade them the same day and return them the next day Remember back to your own...

Stats Medic
Dec 8, 2016
The AP Statistics Exam is Doing it Right
After spending over 50 hours this past summer grading the 2016 AP Statistics Exam, I have some new thoughts about standardized testing. I...

Stats Medic
Dec 7, 2016
Graphing Calculators are the New Slide Rule
Fancy calculators allow our statistics students to do a whole lot of statistics that would be very tedious to do by hand. Unfortunately...

Stats Medic
Oct 21, 2016
A Statistics Class Without Calculators
In another post, we argued for the use of applets instead of graphing calculators in order to buy us more time for developing deep...
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