Category: APStats

  • Torturing, er, teaching today

    All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box AP Statistics I was able to use this quote today in class. I was happy. My learners were happy too, well, mostly happy. Well, okay, not happy at all at first. At first they hated me. They were struggling with learning how to do…

  • Notes, Pacing & lesson idea

    One thing I am really working on in AP Stats is the amount of notes, the lack of notes, and the engagement of my learners. AP Stats is one of those courses where the amount of vocab to assimilate is so huge, that it cannot all be done by activities. I have found that a…

  • Relaying in Stats, Melting down in Alg

    You are here! That is my AP Stats objectives board for the next few weeks. Today and yesterday we finished up Categorical data analysis with Relay Cards. It was very successful. I had many learners telling me they understood what they were doing, and they were saying this even though they were making mistakes in…

  • Miss a day, miss a lot

    I can’t believe I did it, but I missed a day. I did not post on Friday. I don’t have a real excuse, other than tiredness. I took a nap after school on Friday because I was running chains for the varsity football game. After doing it two games on Thursday I was beat by…

  • Burning a day: getting calcs under control

     via With three sections of 32, 34 and 35 in AP Stats  I am trying something different this year with teaching calculator skills. Instead of teaching the skills as I go like I did in previous years I switched it up and burned a day. It was not wasted though, it was highly productive. I have…

  • Additional respect for AP Stats

     via Before I get into yesterday’s classes, because I don’t have a ton to say about them (they were a repeat of Tuesday’s classes, essentially) I learned something last night about AP Statistics in my “Applied Research Design and Analysis in Education I” also called “Non-Parametric Statistics 1” class. What I learned is that AP…

  • I Have, Who Has in Stats; Speed dating in Alg2

      Today was mostly successful for my learners! Yay. I am behind in the book keeping / grading department so I won’t talk about that much. This is always my downfall, and it is so easy to have a conflict of interest between grading effectively and timely, and time spent producing interesting fun lessons that…

  • Alg2 Lesson next week

    Sometimes the internet is your savior and sometimes your timesink, but when reading @Cheesemonkey’s material, it  is always golden delicious bits of luscious learning. Take, for example, her post on Transformations in Precalc. It is a fabulous exercise, and I am going to do it this week. I was talking with my fellow teacher in…

  • My learners taught me today

    Algebra 2: My learners blow my mind. I assigned my Honors Algebra 2 learners to write their name. Seriously, all they had to do was write their first name. In Desmos. With functions. Heh, I am evil, right? It gets worse. They had just taken a quiz, so we only had about 10 minutes left…

  • AP Stats – Better learning this year

    via I have done some things differently this year in AP Stats that have paid off tremendously. I realized it today when I put up a Barron’s flashcard as a warmup and although almost everyone got it wrong, everyone in the entire class could describe the graphs correctly. The words; uniform, symmetric, bimodal, unimodal, skewed…