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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…
Anthony Marble Goes “ALL IN” with Math Medic
What happens when AP Stats teacher Anthony Marble decides to go ALL IN with Stats Medic. Check out the incredible results.
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…
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…
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…
My Favorite Question
A blog post from former AP Statistics Chief Reader Allan Rossman from his blog Ask Good Questions.
Big Changes in the Rubric for Significance Tests
The rubric for grading the significance test on the 2019 AP Statistics Exam has some big changes from how these were graded in the past.
Does Beyoncé Write Her Own Lyrics
Learning Targets Identify the population and sample in a statistical study. Identify voluntary response sampling and convenience sampling…
How Do We Assign Homework?
We explain some of our philosophy around homework, with links to several resources you can use to create your homework assignments.