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Why We Should Embrace Inefficiency
When we talk with other teachers, the prevailing themes of our conversations are the desire to teach our students well–and by that we…
5 Tips for Teaching Volume of Solids of Revolution
How to help students solve volume problems flexibly, fluently, and confidently.
A Statistics Final for a Pandemic (or any other time)
Ho: A Final Exam should assess content understanding.
Ha: A Final Exam should assess content understanding and allow students to reflect.
Strategies for Engaging Students in the Math Medic Review Course
Use the “Discussion” and “Notes” features in the Stats Medic AP Exam Review Course to get students interacting with you and other students.
Reframing Mistakes in the Math Classroom
One of the greatest challenges of teaching (and what makes it so exhausting) is responding to student ideas in real time. Student contributions can be complex, nuanced, incomplete, incorrect, or…
How to Reduce Cheating for Online Assessments
In this blog post you will find an activity that you can do with your students to help them better understand the consequences of cheating.
Mixed Up Inference
With so many different inference procedures in AP Stats, how can students keep them all straight? This activity will definitely help.
The Swiss Army Knife of Math
Find out what we think is the most versatile tool in mathematics.
The 10% Condition and the Finite Population Correction Factor
What happens when the 10% condition is violated? This blog post and student activity explores this question using a statistical applet.
Why Won’t the Math Medic Assessment Platform Grade Student Responses?
Everything you need to know about the features we DIDN’T include in the Math Medic Assessment Platform (and why).
Math Medic / Skew The Script Collaboration Lesson
Engaging contexts from Skew The Script paired with the Stats Medic Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) approach to learning.
AP Statistics – Where We Need to Go From Here
Former Chief Reader Roxy Peck tells us the story of AP Statistics from the beginning, so we can best create our path moving forward.