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Staying Out of the Gray Zone
Karen Sleno shares her biggest take-aways from the 2023 AP Calculus Reading.
The Math Medic Desmos Collection
Here you will get a collection of Desmos activities that can be used to enhance your AP Stats instruction and improve student understanding.
New Applets for Teaching Inference
Using simulation can help students to better understand inference. These applets can help!
Using Questions to Move Student Thinking Forward
This is the second post in a two-part series on how we can use questions to draw out and extend student thinking. In the first post, we…
3 Ways to Use Learning Target Overview Pages
How we use the Unit Overview pages to communicate schedules, help students self-assess, and organize extra resources.
Why Should We EFFL in AP Calculus?
Tips for promoting inquiry and building rigor in AP Calc. I was recently playing “Simon Says” with one of my friend’s young kids. They found the game very entertaining, their brows wrinkled in concentration to
For the Love of Stats – A Lesson For Valentine’s Day
Need a quick stats activity for Valentine’s Day? Here’s a review of two-variable data, with a reveal at the end you will fall in love with.
Statistics Inference Exam – Student Created
While our students often do well within each chapter of inference, they often struggle on the AP Exam when they have to read a question and then decide on the correct inference procedure. This activity will help them to do this successfully.
Differential Equations, SISIS, and Compound Interest
How Calculus can be used to extend and deepen previous learning.
Summer Work for AP Statistics
Should you give a summer assignment? If so, what should it look like? This blog post contains several suggestions for AP Stats summer work.
How to Use the Check Your Understanding (CYU)
At the end of every Stats Medic lesson, there is a Check Your Understanding (CYU) problem. This post suggests how you might use it.
Stratified Random Sample vs Cluster Sample
For starters, students need to understand the most fundamental idea of good sampling: the simple random sample (SRS). Hopefully you used…