Ahead of the Curve

Discover new lessons, education discussion, and answers to frequently asked Stats questions.

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Frequently Asked Questions for Using the Stats Medic Review Course

We've compiled a list of the most common questions about the Review Course, and provided answers to point you in the right direction.

Mar 22
2 min

Stats Medic Review Course is Free for Schools Impacted by Coronavirus

We care about the AP Stats community and want to help. If your school has been impacted by COVID-19, the Stats Medic Review Course is FREE.

Mar 14
1 min

Lesson Plans for CED Unit 9: Inference for Slope

AP Statistics lessons plans that align with Unit 9 of the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED) covering inference for slopes.

Mar 14
1 min

Lesson Plans for CED Unit 8: Chi-Square Tests

AP Statistics lesson plans that align to Unit 8 of the College Board Course and Exam Descriptions (CED) covering chi-square tests.

Mar 8
2 min

What is Normal Body Temperature?

In this lesson, students will use a significance test to decide if 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is actually the true normal body temperature.

Feb 23
2 min

Redesigning Geometry Class for SAT Success

The redesigned SAT test has less Geometry and more Statistics than the previous SAT. As a result, this school changed their Geometry class.

Feb 15
1 min

Lesson Plans for CED Unit 7: Inference for Means

AP Statistics lesson plans that align to Unit 7 of the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED), covering inference for means.

Feb 5
2 min

Big Changes in the Rubric for Significance Tests

The rubric for grading the significance test on the 2019 AP Statistics Exam has some big changes from how these were graded in the past.

Jan 19
2 min

Lesson Plans for CED Unit 6: Inference for Proportions

AP Statistics lesson plans that align to Unit 6 of the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED), covering inference for proportions.

Jan 11
3 min

What Does This Dot Represent?

In this blog post, we reveal the ultimate solution to helping students understand inference - a simple question that the teacher can ask.

Jan 5
2 min

Lesson Plans for CED Unit 5: Sampling Distributions

AP Statistics lesson plans that align to Unit 5 of the College Board Course and Exam Description (CED), covering sampling distributions.

Dec 20, 2019
2 min

AP Statistics Lesson Plans -- Aligning to the CED

Check out our plan for teaching the second semester of AP Stats in the order suggested by the College Board Course and Exam Description.

Dec 6, 2019
2 min

Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) for the Pythagorean Theorem

In these lessons, students will discover the Pythagorean Theorem through the Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL) teaching philosophy.

Nov 24, 2019
3 min

Lesson Plans for Teaching Binomial Distributions

In this post, we reveal how binomial distributions are a path to inference, and then give you four lessons you can use to teach it well.

Nov 10, 2019
2 min

Why won't Mrs. Gallas just give me notes?

It was Parent Teacher Conference night during the first year that we switched all of our AP Stats lessons from traditional notes to ALL IN on EFFL, and paren...

Nov 2, 2019
2 min

Yo Stats Medic. Where Are All Your Guided Notes?

In this post, we outline exactly how we give students the formal learning that is needed for later success on the AP Exam.

Oct 26, 2019
3 min

Can You Taco Tongue and Evil Eyebrow? Two Lessons for Teaching Probability

Help students to understand two-way tables, Venn diagrams, the General Addition formula, conditional probability, and independence.

Oct 13, 2019
2 min

SRS, Stratified, Cluster and Now...Systematic by Justin Timberlake

Do we need to teach systematic random sampling? According to the new College Board CED, the answer is YES! Check out our new lesson.

Oct 3, 2019
4 min

Anthony Marble Goes "ALL IN" with Stats Medic

What happens when AP Stats teacher Anthony Marble decides to go ALL IN with Stats Medic. Check out the incredible results.

Sep 24, 2019
4 min

My Favorite Question

A blog post from former AP Statistics Chief Reader Allan Rossman from his blog Ask Good Questions.