I tried something very new in AP Stats this year. Okay, it may not be all that new, but it was new for me. Last year when teaching confidence intervals, I taught it as it shows in the book, first 1 prop z, then 2 prop z, then inference testing, then 1 sample t, then [...]
My last post was about an idea to use old scantrons as a visual aid to build knowledge of the binomial probability formula before the learners actually were introduced to the formula. Short post: it worked, I think. Long post: I passed out the scantrons, which immediately brought forth a groan. We just had the [...]
Really, I found a use for the boxes of old scantrons I have in storage! I didn’t think of it myself, though. It came from here. Provide each student with a scantron sheet and ask them to guess which would be the correct answer to the first question, if you were unable to see the [...]
At the NCTM Reasoning & Sense Making Institute, I attended the session given by Beth Chance and Henry Kranendonk, two of the three authors of the Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability book. I have that book on my bookshelf at school, and I have looked at it, but have not tried any [...]
The FRQ review that I did last class was fairly successful. The learners worked their problems, thought about how to teach that problem, and gave good presentations to the class. The one thing I was very disappointed in was the lack of questions on how to do the problems the class was teaching. They all said, “yup, [...]
This week is review. All review. It is as interesting and as fun as watching paint dry. It is also necessary. I have 90 minute blocks, so I can give them the full exam in two periods. The first period I gave them the multiple choice, ran it through the scanner, and handed them their [...]
My AP stats kids are really not wanting to learn the calculator skills. It is killing me! They want to do it all by hand and then type in the math in the normal screen instead of using “stats” and “ttest” instead. KILLING ME! So, to force the issue, and give them something interesting to [...]
In AP statistics I was having a problem getting the class to actually engage during class! I know! The whole purpose of being .. in class .. is to BE IN CLASS! Thanks to my twitter PLN, I learned a terrific idea to get the class engaged. It works. Hardcore it works. It is called [...]
Today I tried something I have never done before. I used a “chain note” activity as a pre-learning exercise. In case you don’t know what a chain note is, I will explain. A chain note is a note started by one person, and continued by another. In this case, I had an envelope with an [...]