Category: APStats

  • Re-Writing AP Stats through Critical Theory

    As I have been examining my practice through the lens of Critical Theory, I asked myself how would I teach differently now than I did even a year ago? Great question.   It is time for me to look at AP Stats differently. The last year I taught AP Statistics, I created great connections through…

  • Additional Plot.ly v. JMP comparisons

    My learners have been using Plot.ly for a week, and have asked me a ton of questions on how to do certain things with their data. I wanted to add details to my last post on Plot.ly v. JMP and tell you the decision I made regarding the issue. All of the questions I have below…

  • AP Stats learners using Plot.ly

    I pushed my AP Stats learners to use Plot.ly this year for their projects instead of JMP as I have in previous years. I am not sure if I like it better or worse, but I definitely have some frustrations. Let’s go through the good points first. 1. After the learners had their data in…

  • AP Stats projects

    Wow, it has been a while since I posted anything, and I need to share a ton of things I have done. I predict that I will post a lot in the next several weeks. The school year is winding down, but my learners are ramping up. Grad school is down for the summer (with…

  • Central Limit Theorem Love

    Besides the usual quote on the board today, I also have this math pickup line: How can I know hundreds of digits of pi and not know your phone number?  I am featuring a new math love / pickup line each day this week (some days will have more than one). If you want the…

  • New Desmos functions – STATS! Yay!

    My last post was in September and was entitled “I am tired so tired.” That ended up prophetic because with the fall break I ended up not posting for three weeks.  Whew. I needed that break to get back on track and then caught up. I am glad I have my head on right now…

  • Tired – So tired

    Today wiped me out. I had all 3 sections of AP Stats today, and I heard the same comment from all 3 classes. It went something like this, “I never understood the z score when we did it in Alg 2. My teacher just said, memorize the formula and get find the number.” Sigh. That…

  • Pictionary in Stats

    I tortured my learners with a game, a game that was awesome and they all agreed was worth while. We played a Stats Pictionary! I used this document.  Ch 5 – various distributions- Pictionary   I created these distributions using the Illuminations Applet called plopit.   http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PlopIt/ Here are my rules: 1. Each pair gets one…

  • Greedy Greedy learners – a good thing

    That’s right, they got greedy, and lost. Well, everyone gained, knowledge and skills that is.  Today (and tomorrow in one period) in AP Stats we are playing The game of Greed. This is a great game, that challenges the learners in the end to make box plots and comparison statements about the created data. You end up…

  • Mixed bag today

    Today was a mixed bag of, well, weirdness and frustration with some awesomeness. I will start with the awesomeness. This morning at 7:15am, a learner from last year walked in and asked for help with his college math class. Loved it. I worked with him for about an hour (into the first class of the…