Every year in AP stats for the last 4 years I have struggled with getting my learners to understand and use the all important conditions checks in Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis tests. This year I changed up how I taught it, and it has really made an impact. In fact, I can honestly say that [...]
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 [...]
This will be the last post I make on the specific topic of the 3 days spent in Orlando at the Reasoning and Sense Making Institute. I will expect that I make many more posts on things I do in the classroom that are based on the ideas I have learned, however. A collection of [...]
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 [...]
Viva Hathaway was the third session on Saturday, and I looked forward to her presentation with great gusto. I attended a short session she gave at the NCTM Conference in Salt Lake City in 2009, and walked away from her session with a brain exploding with ideas. In fact, on her site, she still has [...]
I have to say I almost left Mr. Godbold’s presentation. It started off on a odd note, where he told us what he wanted to go over, then said we couldn’t do all of it, but we would be lucky if we did half, and then repeated himself for about 10 minutes. He looked and [...]
Timothy Kanold was the Superintendent of Adlai Stevenson High School District in Illinois. This school is a huge success story, because it went from bottom of the bottom to top of the top. They did this through a strong commitment to PLC’s and communication. Now Mr. Kanold did not spend a second on his Keynote [...]
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, [...]