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A blog post from former AP Statistics Chief Reader Allan Rossman from his blog Ask Good Questions.
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- May 26, 2019
- 2 min
A New Formula Sheet for the AP Statistics Exam
Recently, College Board released the new Course and Exam Description, a 263 page document that clearly outlines the content expectations...
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
What's New from College Board for AP Statistics in 2019-2020
The College Board has recently announced some changes for AP Statistics for next school year. They also released a short video...
- Feb 10, 2019
- 2 min
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.
- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Why Teach Using the Experience First, Formalize Later model?
In our previous post, we explained how we implement the Experience First, Formalize Later model in the classroom. In this post, we dig...
- Oct 30, 2018
- 3 min
Experience First, Formalize Later (EFFL)
Several years ago, the Stats Medic created a new on-level Stats course targeted toward Seniors at East Kentwood High School. We wanted...
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
Stratified Random Sample vs Cluster Sample
For starters, students need to understand the most fundamental idea of good sampling: the simple random sample (SRS). Hopefully you used...
- Jun 14, 2017
- 2 min
Why Isn’t Bias Accounted for by the Margin of Error?
When teaching confidence intervals, we talk about how bias is not accounted for by the margin of error. Seems easy enough to me, so when...
- May 10, 2017
- 1 min
Predictions for the 2017 AP Statistics Exam
Today in class, I made my predictions for the 2017 AP Statistics Exam. I am confident that some will be right and I am most certainly...
- Apr 9, 2017
- 2 min
NCTM Annual Conference 2017: Build the Story of Inference
We spent the last four days in beautiful San Antonio learning from many great stats educators (thanks Doug, Josh, and others) and eating...
- Mar 9, 2017
- 2 min
Why Do We Standardize Normal Distributions?
What happens when a distribution is standardized? Let’s take a look at an example. Here is a distribution of test scores and the...
- Feb 7, 2017
- 1 min
Applebees vs. Starbucks “OR”
There are times in statistics when we have to fight the English language because we need a more specific and precise definition of the...
- Dec 10, 2016
- 3 min
How to Write a Great Test for AP Statistics
Use the same format as the AP Exam The AP Statistics Exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions and 6 free response questions....
- Dec 10, 2016
- 4 min
How to Grade Your AP (Statistics) Tests
You have written a great test. Now it is time to grade it. Grade them the same day and return them the next day Remember back to your...
- Dec 8, 2016
- 3 min
The AP Statistics Exam is Doing it Right
After spending over 50 hours this past summer grading the 2016 AP Statistics Exam, I have some new thoughts about standardized testing. I...
- Dec 7, 2016
- 2 min
Graphing Calculators are the New Slide Rule
Fancy calculators allow our statistics students to do a whole lot of statistics that would be very tedious to do by hand. Unfortunately...
- Oct 21, 2016
- 1 min
A Statistics Class Without Calculators
In another post, we argued for the use of applets instead of graphing calculators in order to buy us more time for developing deep...
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