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Statistical Literacy is too Important to Allow Gatekeeping
How do we increase diversity in the AP Statistics classroom? AP Government teacher Nate Bowling shares his thoughts and ideas.
What Do Students Need to Know about Particle Motion?
Particle motion makes up about 14% of the AP Calculus Exam. There are generally five or six multiple choice questions and one free…
Reviewing without Reteaching-Part 2
Why re-teaching may not be the best option for end-of-semester review, and actually may have some problematic effects.
AP Daily: Live Review for AP Statistics
Join Luke from Stats Medic and AP Stats all-star Daren Starnes for 8 review sessions designed to help you maximize your AP Exam score!
Redesigning Geometry Class for SAT Success
The redesigned SAT test has less Geometry and more Statistics than the previous SAT. As a result, this school changed their Geometry class.
How to Balance Concepts and Procedures in an EFFL Classroom
Let’s take a deeper look at how we can use homework and assessments to assess conceptual understanding and build procedural fluency.
How Do We Assign Homework in AP Calc?
What should homework look like in AP Calc? How much should we assign and where can we find problems? Let’s address these questions.
Why Doesn’t X + X = 2X?
We all know that X + X = 2X in Algebra. But what about in Statistics?
AP Statistics Lesson Plans — Aligning to the CED
Check out our plan for teaching the second semester of AP Stats in the order suggested by the College Board Course and Exam Description.
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…
A Statistics Class Without Calculators
In another post, we argued for the use of applets instead of graphing calculators in order to buy us more time for developing deep…
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…