Brand NEW Intro Stats Curriculum
Kelly Pendleton
The year is 2015. Luke and Lindsey are teaching Intro Stats together at East Kentwood High School. They scour the internet looking for engaging ways to teach statistics and come up short. They know statistics is a cool and important subject; they just have to find a way for the students to see it, too. Enter: The Stats Medic. With the goal of “bringing statistics to life” for students, Luke and Lindsey set out to create engaging lessons for every day of Intro Stats. They stayed up late developing lessons where students would experience the math for themselves before being taught the formal definitions and processes (aka Experience First, Formalize Later, or EFFL). And after coming up empty in their original search, they decided to build the lessons they wished existed—and put them out into the world for others to use.
Fast forward 10 years and The Stats Medic has evolved into Math Medic, with a full EFFL curriculum, including homework, quizzes, and tests for every high school math course…except Intro Stats. That is, until the 2026-2027 school year when Math Medic will launch its brand new Intro Stats curriculum, complete with assessments, videos, and teacher support resources through the Math Medic Plus subscription. Even the lesson activities (which are and will always be free!!) got a refresh, now with no overlapping contexts with the AP Stats lessons.
Our goals with the new Intro Stats curriculum:
- Give students foundational knowledge in statistics to be intelligent consumers of data.
- Emphasize deep understanding and statistical reasoning, while easing the burden of highly specific AP-style communication requirements.
- Cover all the Common Core Statistics standards, while adding some standards we think should be included (like multiple regression!).
- Allow teachers to decide what technology to use for the course (calculators, applets, Desmos).
- Empower teachers with all the resources needed to teach the course without a textbook.
This new curriculum has 10 units of content and one final project to put it all together.
And most refreshing of all, there is no need for a textbook! The materials included with the Math Medic Plus subscription provide all the supports a traditional textbook would offer and will launch on August 1, 2026! To help you prepare, we are sharing the Learning Targets and Course-at-a-Glance of the new course.
Learning Targets Course-at-a-Glance
Sign up now for a full year of access (starting August 1) to assessments, videos, and more with a Math Medic Plus subscription.
It all started in 2015 and we couldn’t be more grateful for your support over the years!
About the Author
Kelly Pendleton
Kelly has the fun job of writing questions for the assessment platforms and free lessons. As an AP Stats teacher at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, NC, she loves coming up with interesting and engaging scenarios to keep students on their toes! Kelly is all-in on the “EFFL revolution” (as she calls it) and uses it with her own students, even online during the pandemic. Kelly is passionate about schools having equal access to quality materials no matter where they’re located and loves that Math Medic is helping to better that. If you see her in person, she’s the tall one who’s probably munching on popcorn.