Lessons

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.

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.

Sneak Peek of the Stats Medic AP Exam Review Course

A good review is critical for student success on the AP Exam. The Stats Medic AP Exam Review Course is the best way to get them ready.

Baseball Salaries and the Central Limit Theorem

This guest blog post comes to us from superstar AP Stats teacher Leigh Nataro. Sampling distributions are at the heart of statistical...

Introducing Independence: Does Mrs. Gallas choke under pressure?

Testing if two events are independent is tough. And with a formula like P(A) = P(A|B) = P(A|not B) it can be very confusing! Our students...

Help Students Interpret r^2.

During my first few years of teaching, I treated the interpretation of r^2 as a fill-in-the-blank exercise: "__________ percent of the...

A Math Lesson For MLK Day

This lesson asks the question, "Why do some schools do better than others?" Learning Targets Describe the relationship between two...

Response Bias Project

Would your decision to eat a delicious hamburger change if you knew the nutrition information? Would you admit to texting and driving in...

Does Beyoncé Write Her Own Lyrics

Learning Targets Identify the population and sample in a statistical study. Identify voluntary response sampling and convenience sampling...

Barbie Bungee: Guaranteed Student Engagement

Best class period of the year so far! Students were very engaged and worked hard. From start to finish they were excited about the bungee...

Mutually Exclusive Events? Ask Turner

This is Turner. He is in my 3rd hour AP Statistics class. He has blue eyes. He is the reason that students in this class understand the...

Best Friends Forever: Two-Way Tables and Venn Diagrams

Two-Way Table Two-way tables provide a clear and concise method for organizing probabilities for two events. I have discovered that...

Correlation Does Not Mean Causation

The most important lesson of the school year If I could gift my students with only one single concept that they could take from my class...

Interpret the z-score (Like it’s Your Job)

Most of our students will have no trouble calculating a z-score. But interpreting the z-score is a much more important concept for their...