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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Does Beyoncé Write Her Own Lyrics
Learning Targets Identify the population and sample in a statistical study. Identify voluntary response sampling and convenience sampling...

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Barbie Bungee: Guaranteed Student Engagement
Best class period of the year so far! Students were very engaged and worked hard. From start to finish they were excited about the bungee...

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150 Days of AP Stats is Coming Your Way!
Last year, we made a blog post for every school day of the year for our Intro Stats class. Every new lesson includes an activity that...

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Why Isn’t Bias Accounted for by the Margin of Error?
When teaching confidence intervals, we talk about how bias is not accounted for by the margin of error. Seems easy enough to me, so when...

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Predictions for the 2017 AP Statistics Exam
Today in class, I made my predictions for the 2017 AP Statistics Exam. I am confident that some will be right and I am most certainly...

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NCTM Annual Conference 2017: Build the Story of Inference
We spent the last four days in beautiful San Antonio learning from many great stats educators (thanks Doug, Josh, and others) and eating...

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Why Do We Standardize Normal Distributions?
What happens when a distribution is standardized? Let’s take a look at an example. Here is a distribution of test scores and the...

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Mutually Exclusive Events? Ask Turner
This is Turner. He is in my 3rd hour AP Statistics class. He has blue eyes. He is the reason that students in this class understand the...

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Applebees vs. Starbucks “OR”
There are times in statistics when we have to fight the English language because we need a more specific and precise definition of the...

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Best Friends Forever: Two-Way Tables and Venn Diagrams
Two-Way Table Two-way tables provide a clear and concise method for organizing probabilities for two events. I have discovered that...

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Tell the Whole Story: Evidence for Ha by Josh Tabor
Today we have Josh Tabor as our guest blogger. Josh is a high school statistics teacher at Canyon del Oro high school in Arizona. He...

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Correlation Does Not Mean Causation
The most important lesson of the school year If I could gift my students with only one single concept that they could take from my class...

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