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    statsTeachR Looking for a way to learn R? This looks like a good way, with premade modules and lessons for self teaching. tags: statistics ap stats stats R Fathom Dynamic Data Software (Free) | The Concord Consortium Fathom is dead. Long live Fathom! Or at least something like that. This page has a temporary free…

  • A philosophy of teaching math

    This post is really for a friend of mine who is very much math aware and capable, but does not teach math. He has twin sons who are absolutely amazeballs smart, and through talking with him one day I espoused my approach to algebra. He was intrigued and wanted more info. This is my attempt…

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    Solve and Simplify: Wisdom of the crowd I wonder if I can turn this into a first day of class exercise in AP Stats? It may be worth trying. tags: ap stats ap lessons Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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    Argument Writing in Math: Getting Started A getting started post on how to start incorporating writing in the mathematics classroom. tags: writing in math math education math Writing in the STEM Disciplines There are hundreds of citations in this site to help sharpen the idea of writing in the STEM disciplines. I have not mined…

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    My Learning Journey: Polya – How to Solve It This post has several links in it to Mathematical Modeling sites I have not seen before. These links are mainly to British sites and deserve some additional exploration. tags: modeling pbl research math Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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    The Teacher’s Guide to project based learning This is another very thorough guide to teachers on how to construct Project Based Learning. Are these guides all saying the same thing? tags: education pbl modeling research How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report – NYTimes.com The graphics in this page make it mandatory usage…

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    Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics :: Team-building : nrich.maths.org This page has 30 different ways to get learners involved in teamwork and working together to solve problems. tags: assessment math ccss teamwork Welcome to the Mathematics Assessment Project This is a great place to find resources on good assessment as well as formative assessment…

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    Microwave test – an eye opener | Employee News | 2012 Indy Info I am saving this for one reason. I want someone in my ap stats class to try and reproduce this experiment. Does this experiment meet the conditions for a good experimental design? tags: ap stats ap lessons Things that correlate Spurious correlations.…

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    Ilana Horn | Vanderbilt University – Academia.edu Ilana Horn’s public papers. I think there are several hours worth of reading on this page alone. tags: research Cosines and correlation | The Endeavour This is a nice explanation of how the Law of Cosines and Stats is related. tags: ap stats stats statistics correlation Posted from…

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    One-eyed wooing: beauty is in the right eye of the beholder for finches | @GrrlScientist | Science | theguardian.com An article with boxplots. Sometimes learners (and other teachers) don’t understand that boxplots are actually useful and used a tremendous amount! tags: ap stats graphing stats statistics http://www.counton.org/resources/misconceptions/pdfs/misconceptions1~22.pdf This is a great PDF of different misconceptions…