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If you are ever given the daunting task of teaching AP Statistics, use the following resources:
Stats Medic:
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The "150 days of AP Stats" lesson plans are the most useful resource there can be for a new teacher. Lessons are already done (with answer keys and time-management recommendations), with the lessons organized day-by-day, making an excellent pacing guide as well. The best part is that all the lessons are completely free, are the most interactive lessons I have ever seen, and naturally incorporate AVID strategies.
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The most interesting thing to me about these lessons is that as soon as I saw them, I realized they were very similar to how I always envisioned I would teach. I had made many strides in teaching students through questioning, and the Stats Medic lessons felt like the next step in that process. Many of my lessons for Integrated Math 3 are styled similarly to the lessons from Stats Medic.
Click on the image to go to the Stats Medic website
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Online Applets & simulators:
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The best way to demonstrate some of the more abstract ideas in AP Stats is to use Applets. Often, my textbook or Stats Medic will direct me to use these, and with good reasons. They make lessons interactive and, more importantly, help make the more difficult lessons make sense. Often times I found myself learning alongside the students I saw them perform use the applets. Statistics teachers are lucky to be a part of a community that is willing to post these online for free.
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AP Classroom ~ Question Bank
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One of the newest (and in my opinion the best) additions to the College Board website is AP Classroom, specifically the Question Bank. Before I was a teacher, I worked at a school that has the IB programme, which already provided a question
bank for its teachers. The IB Question Bank allows teachers to create assessments from released IB Exams, which makes it a great tool to prepare students for their IB Exam.
Once I began teaching AP Statistics, I found that a lack of a question bank made my job much harder. I had no idea what the AP Statistics exam looked like or how to prepare students for it. Since the AP Question Bank was launched, I felt more confident in my abilities to prepare students for their AP Exam.
Below is an example of these resources being used. This Stats Medic lesson uses an applet to teach the Central Limit Theorem. The questions that follow the lesson are about the Central Limit Theorem and were taken from the AP Question Bank (which came from released AP Statistics exams).
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Click on the image of the lesson to go to the lesson page on Stats Medic