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Is There a Lesson for That?
Everything you need to know about how the Math Medic courses were designed and resources to make them work for YOU!
New School Year, New Applets!
New applets for teaching the concepts of sampling distributions, confidence intervals, power, and inference for slope.
What Does the Research Say About EFFL?
Get a high-level summary of our recent article in NCTM’s Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 journal.
Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) for the Pythagorean Theorem
In these lessons, students will discover the Pythagorean Theorem through the Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) teaching philosophy.
Why Bother with z-scores and Table A?
We use z-scores and Table A to help us find area under normal distributions (P-value) so that we can make a conclusion to a significance…
SRS, Stratified, Cluster and Now…Systematic by Taylor Swift
Do we need to teach systematic random sampling? According to the new College Board CED, the answer is YES! Check out our new lesson.
Building Thinking Classrooms and EFFL: Can You Do Both?
How to incorporate Liljedahl’s 14 teaching practices into your EFFL classroom.
A Detailed Analysis of the Questions Used on the AP Statistics Exam
What type of multiple choice and free response questions can we expect to see?
Homework Is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
Karen Sleno explains how she’s totally changed her approach to homework this year.
8 Strategies to Build Understanding of U-substitution
Use this set of prompts and warm-ups to help students gain conceptual understanding of u-substitution.
EFFL on a Budget!
Giving students an experience before formalizing the learning often requires costly materials. Check out our tips for doing it on a budget.