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Each year, educators at the AP Reading meet one evening for “Best Practices Night”. This evening is an opportunity for interested presenters to share "best practices" in the teaching of introductory statistics with their colleagues. Everything from favorite instructional activities to teaching tips to assessment resources to statistical humor have been the subject of presentations in prior years. The sections below provide a cross-section of practices that address a variety of high-school and college topics.
Best Practices 2016 Collection
np>10? Let Students Develop the Rule: Best Practices 2016.pptx - Bob Lochel
People Cannot Choose a Representative Sample: People Cannot Choose a Representative Sample.pptx - Carla Hill
Pool Noodle Javelins: Pool Noodle Javelins.pptx - Randal Blackwood
Casino Game Day: TYoung Best Practice Night.pptx - Thomas Young
We Won! StatSquad: StatSquad.pptm - Lew Davidson
Plickers: plickersAPReading.pdf - Kim Roth
Hey People! It’s Not Math--It’s Statistics! Hey People—It’s Not Math—It’s STATISTICS!.pptx - Alan Chesen
Grow Better Tree Diagrams: Growing Better Tree Diagrams.pptx - Doug Tyson
Play Statistical God: Play Statistical GOD.doc - Sandra Lowell
Visual Cues in AP Statistics: VIsual Aids in AP Stat.pptx - Darin Clift
Using Team Challenges to Promote Individual Learning: Team challenges Starnes.pptx - Daren Starnes
Marshmallow Spitting - An Exercise in 2-sample t-tests: Marshmallow Spitting.pptx 2sampttest.docx - Anthony Dick
Duality Sticks-The Relationship Between Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests: DualitySticks.pptx - John Krickl
Speed Dating: Speed Dating.pptx - Stacy Elliot
Learning Cards Flip Folder: LearningCardsFlipFolder.pdf - Mark Fisher
Make Your Own Review Book: ComingSoon - June Beighly
Crowdsource Your Review: CrowdsourceReview.pptx - Leigh Nataro
Best Practices 2015 Collection
Parody Math Songs that Teach: YouTubeLink - Glorybeth Becker
Multiple Choice Mondays: MCMonday.doc - Michelle Larson
The Invisible Hand in Sports: Coming Soon - Kyle Greene
Hot Chocolate Regression: HotChocolateRegression.pptx Handout.docx - Anthony Dick
Making it Stick: MakingItStick.pptx - Daren Starnes
Putter Up! An intro to Experimental Design: BestPutter.pptx - Paul Buckley
Inference Round Table: InferenceRoudTable.pptx - Linda Puckett
Paul the Octopus: A Simulation Activity: PaulOctopusSlides.pdf PaulOctopusHandout.pdf - Laura Schultz
Errors and Power: Errors and Power.docx Errors_and_Power.ftm - Corey Andreasen
Around the World in 80 Tosses: AroundWorld.pptx GlobeToss.docx - Lisa Brock & Carol Sikes
FRAPPY Bunnies: FRAPPY BUNNIES.pptx - Joshua Sawyer
Strategies for Standards Based Grading: YankayPresentation DerksenBlog - Adam Yankay, Jared Derksen, Corey Andreasen
A Pocketful of Inference Procedures: PocketfulInferenceProcedures.pptx - Lynette Hudiburgh
Kahoot!: Kahoot_Tutorials.pdf - John Bennett
Making AP Review Individualized: ReviewStrategyAPTestUDL.pptx - Chris & Ashley Schreckengost
AP Statistics Field Day: Class Activities worksheet 2016.docx blank tree for test type.docx ppt - Mary Harrison
Developing Partnerships w/AP Stat Practice Exam: Practice Exam.pptx - Christy Brown & Beth Johnson
Best Practices 2014 Collection
Professional Night Presentation: AP Reading June 2014 Talk.pdf - Chris Franklin
Rhythm & Rhyme: Songs.zip - Amy Crum
Blockification: Williams Blockification.ppt, VocabVennDiagramActivity.docx - Penny Williams
R is not Enough: 4 interesting data sets.pptx, 4sets.docx, 4sets.pdf - Ashley Schreckengost
Starbursts and R2: Starbursts.zip - Doug Tyson
Expect More from Expected Value: Expected Value presentation.pptx - James Friedrich
Binomial Formula the Easy Way, Review Sheets: BinomialProbability.pdf MurderMystery.docx MysterySolutions.docx - Dori Peterson & Sandra Lowell
Fantasy Football in the Stats Classroom: Keynote FF.key (requires Apple Keynote), FF_Files.zip - Meredith Many
Highlighting Standards: Best Practices Night-F. Ushe1.pptx - Fides Ushe
1:1 Classroom and Flipped Learning: Prezi Link - Kathy Petko
How Do You Know if Your Students Geddit? Gedditt.pptx - Laura Ringwood
Creating a Collaborative AP Stats Community: CreatingACollaborativeAPStatisCommunity.ppt - Mandi Kraemer
Using Writing in Statistics Classes: Using Writing in Statistics.ppt - Tonya Adkins
Z Puzzles: ZPuzzles.pptx, mostly blank template.doc, z-puzzle.doc - Christine Wozniak
Morbid Math: Morbid Math.pptx, Morbid Math T Distribution Activity.doc - Brianna Kurtz
Give Those Gummies a Second Look: FlyingGummy.key (requires Keynote), FlyingGummyData.ftm- Kevin DeVizia
Gimme a Kiss! Gimme a Kiss!.pptx, Hersheys Kiss Activity.docx - Lisa Brock & Carol Sikes
Sampling Using Beads: APAC 2014.pptx - Paul Rodriguez
Proper Work for Significance Tests: ProperWorkSigTests.pptx - Luke Wilcox
The Quest: Student Quest Questions 13-14.pdf - Eric Lund
Serving the Community Through Statistics: Wilkerson - Best Practices Presentation Materials.zip - Josh Wilkerson
Best Practices 2013 Collection
Professional Night Presentation: APTalk.ppt - Jessica Utts
How to Collect Data Quicker in Class: Powerpoint - Kirstie Dohler
The Rules of Engagement: Powerpoint , Test Prep Reflection.doc - Robin Levine-Wissing
Making Homework Count: Powerpoint - Daren Starnes
Scatterbrained Fathom: StompRocketPrediction.ftm, Guess the Distribution.ftm - Kevin DeVizia
Pi as a Random Number Generator: Powerpoint - Leigh Nataro
Understanding and Visualizing Confidence Level: Powerpoint - Ashley Schrekengost
The Proper Conclusion to a Significance Test: Powerpoint - Luke Wilcox
A Flip and A Twist: Keynote - Jonathan Osters
2-sample t-test, with only summary stats, using Excel: Excel - Barry Woods
Research Team Assemble! Powerpoint - Brandon Hanson
Statistical Organizers: PDF - Ruth Wunderlich
Statistics at Lazer Quest: Powerpoint, Field Trip to Lazer Quest.docx - Mary Harrison
NBA Draft Lottery Probabilities: Word - James Bush
Co-Teaching across AP Courses: Powerpoint - Bob Lochel
StatKey: Online Apps for Teaching Randomization Tests and Bootstraps: Link to StatKey
The Magic of Statistics…Revealed! Powerpoint - Michael Posner
Quick Review Worksheets: Wksht1 Wksht2 Wksht3 - Sandra Lowell
The Moneyball Effect - Teaching Stats through Sports - Powerpoint - Paul Buckley
Best Practices 2012 Collection
South Carolina and Pennsylvania AP Practice Exam: Powerpoint - Ellen Breazel
Podcasting Potentials for Statistics: Powerpoint, Podcasting_links.docx - Brandon Hanson
Pencasts: Hill.pdf - Carla Hill
Statistics Valentine / Inference Foldable: Powerpoint, Directions.docx, Valentine.docx, Inference.docx - Mary Harrison
Creating Balloon-Help Tutorial Projects: Powerpoint - Rob Gerver
How I Learned to Stop Worrying about it and Just Teach MBA 580!: Powerpoint - Alan Chesen
FRAPPY’s!: FRAPPY Page - Jason Molesky
Technology Cures Stagefright: Powerpoint - Leigh Nataro
Normal Probability Plots – Part 2, Using Excel: Excel Worksheet - Barry Woods
Bunko Probabilities: Activity.pdf, Rules_solutions.pdf, - Beth Rothfuss
Probability: What Is and Ain't Appropriate in AP Statistics: Starnes.doc - Daren Starnes
Joint AP Statistics & AP U.S. Gov't end-of-year projects: Powerpoint - Adam Shrager
Best Practices 2011 Collection
David Salsburg, “The Lady Tasting Tea” Presentation Slides: Salsburg.pptx
Ron Wasserstein, Lottery Talk: Powerpoint, LottoLuck, 300 Numbers
Introducing Sampling Distributions: TysonCostello_Files.zip - Doug Tyson and Michael Costello
Calculating Normal Probabilities Using Excel: Sample Excel File - Barry Woods
Applications of the Normal Quantile Plot: Slides - David Rose
Wedding Story: SampleFiles.zip - Mary Harrison
The Birthday Paradox: Schultz_Files.zip - Laura Schultz
A Year’s Worth of Inquiry on Day One: Thill_Files.zip - William Thill
Text Messaging Competition: Instructions.docx - Shrager_Files.zip - Adam Shrager
Stats Investigations Using ASA’s Census at School: Ferris.handout.2011.pdf - Dave Ferris
The Use of Case Studies in Undergraduate Business Statistics: Chesen_Files.zip - Alan Chesen
Teaching AP Literacy in a Heterogeneous Classroom: Dudley_Files.zip - Maura Dudley
Student Readers: SampleGradingSheet.doc - Adam Yankay
What the AP Reading Taught Me About Traditional Judaism: Presentation - Ruth Wunderlich
Teaching Statistics with Fathom: Fathom_Carver.zip - Ruth Carver
Technology Presentation: Technology_Chance.zip - Beth Chance
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