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Teaching the Unit Circle WITHOUT Memorization
All you need are a couple of special triangles to find all angles and coordinates of the unit circle.
Top 5 Tips for Using Desmos to Teach Stats Medic Lessons
This blog post will get you ready and excited to use Desmos activities to teach Stats Medic lessons.
Bring Back the German Tanks
Josh Tabor discusses a revised version of the German Tank Problem – an excellent activity for introducing sampling distributions.
There’s more to Trig than SOH CAH TOA
Students can develop a deeper understanding of trigonometry by focusing on proportional reasoning.
Lesson Plans for Teaching Binomial Distributions
In this post, we reveal how binomial distributions are a path to inference, and then give you four lessons you can use to teach it well.
GAISEing into School Level Statistics and Data Science
GAISE report author Christine Franklin gives us a history lesson on statistics education in the United States.
Choose the Right Contexts for Linear Systems
Help your students deepen their understanding of linear systems by choosing contexts that highlight the math without complicating it.
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…
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…
Build deeper understanding of lines through contexts
Spark students’ intuitive understanding of slope and linear relationships through contextual questions.
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…
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…