A busy day


Some days are great because of keeping busy and the flow, and some days are just busy. Today was a great day. However, the first time I have sat down and had a chance to write is now, at 8:30pm. Whew.

AP Stats

Today was a “C Day” on our block schedule, which means I had all 3 of my AP Stats classes back to back to back. What a great day. We discussed the 4 types of bias, and then worked on stratified, cluster and simple random sampling via the “Rolling on the River” exercise. [Regular formatting and formatted for INB files.]

I like doing the Jelly Blubbers (last post) and Rolling on the River back to back. It is vital to have a wrap up and discuss what is different and what is the same, otherwise the learners can just get that there are different ways to do a cluster, and than one is always better. I challenge the learners to really think and reflect on the similarities between the two, and why did a cluster sample work out better in one case, but a stratified works better in the other.

Want to know the bad part? I took pictures of the data we created and didn’t save them somehow. I have lost the work. I asked the class to take pictures, so I know they have it. I lost it though. Boo.

[edit: I snagged one image from a learner. Yay]

2014-08-21 I asked the learners to make a boxplot with the data. I just want to see what they know.

Tomorrow I will wrap up the survey section with some questioning and see what they have learned so far. I really want to magically find 40 textbooks. I am short over 1 class of books to check them out. Very frustrating.

UNR Grad School

I ran from the last class to UNR for Graduate Student Orientation. No prep for me. Orientation was interesting, useful and informative. I was shocked, and I mean floored, that the University staff had never heard of Remind.com though. The Title IX director did a 45 minute long session on sexual harassment (as in what to watch out for and not do it, not instructions for doing) and after telling all the TA’s to be careful about texting their students I suggested Remind.com as a good alternative. She had never even heard of it.

Wow.

Anyway, I start classes on a Ph.D. on Monday. That will bring up a whole new reason to blog and content to blog about. I wonder what is the best way to do that. Should I start a new blog? Just a new tag? Not sure. Anyway, I went from UNR directly to a local elementary school.

Elementary School

I met with the principle of a middle school and together we provided a unified front to let the ES parents know that the HS, MS and ES teachers are one team to help their learners succeed. It was the first time that we have done this, and I am hoping it made a difference in how the parents think about the different levels of school their learners will go through. I am really proud of how much collaboration we have between the levels. In fact, this year we set up a shared dropbox folder so all the Algebra 1 teachers in both of our feeder MS’s and the high school can share resources.

How cool is that!

Anyway, it was a terribly busy day. I look forward to tomorrow. I have 2 sections of AP Stats & Alg 2 honors tomorrow, followed up by the entire teaching staff doing the Ice Challenge after school.

Another busy day, but entirely fun.

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