INFORMATION FOR AP STATISTICS READERS
2025-2026 Statistics Cartoon Calendar – thanks Diane Philips!
BEST PRACTICES NIGHT PRESENTATIONS
2025: Video Coming Soon!
- Penny Smeltzer: Lessons That Matter
- Oscar Aguirre: PBL in AP Statistics
- Dash Young-Saver: Measuring Causality in Education
- Erin Sallette: March Math-Ness
- Bob Lochel: Slow Reveal Graphs
- Mikel Jones: Daily Randomized Grouping
- Juan Gómez: Desmos Statistics Tools
- Amy Hinkle: Best Practice Moves I Still Use
- Nick Simonetti: Ditching Re-Tests and Corrections
2024: The “live” presentation was corrupted by the technology gremlins…but thanks to the speakers who shared a video of their presentations for you to enjoy. Dropbox links to many presentations appear below.
- Luke Wilcox: Stats Medic Refreshed Lessons
- Greg Fisher: 5 Ditties for AP Stats
- Dash Young-Daver: Stats and Storytelling
- Trevor Herntier: Sampling Bias
- Nick Simonetti: Salt Toxicity
- Bridget Matamoros: Clinical Trial Simulation
- Amy Crum: Building Thinking Classrooms
- Erin Sallette: Are You Getting Chipped
2023: Thanks to Bridget, Darin and Doug for another fantastic night of learning from each other. Links to Powerpoint presentations and other helpful links below.
- Dash Young-Saver: Inference Trifecta
- Leigh Nataro: Mario’s or Luigi’s – An Introduction to Numerical Summaries of Data
- Robin Lock: The SCORE Network
- Laura Ziegler and Anna Peterson: Lego Brick Data
- Randy Blackwood: The Blackwood Files
- Woody Nivens: The Monty Hall Problem
- Ben Bishop and Candice Sagliano: More Activities Correlates to Increased Enrollment?
- Bob Lochel: Is It Possible? Is It Plausible? Be a Probability Detective.
- Adam Shrager: AP “Statistics” Questions You Haven’t Seen Before!
2022: Bridget Matamoros has assembled this year’s presentations into a fun video. Enjoy!
2021: another year of virtual presentations, but as always many great ideas for your classroom! Thanks to Bridget, Doug and Darin for organizing. There’s also a nifty collection of the talks on Nearpod you can enjoy: https://app.nearpod.com/presentation?pin=76RE4
Resources on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sn74o7fclkcvghu/AABRp-A6n1Fcg–1PWD_hjYfa?dl=0
2020: this year’s presentations are on shared virtually. Thanks to the team of Doug Tyson, Darin Clift and Bridget Matamoros for organizing this year’s event.
2019: most links below are Powerpoints. Visit my Dropbox for all files, many which have also been printed as pdfs.
- Bridget Matamoros: Chopped Statistics Showdown
- Les Schaefer: Socio Emotional Learning and AP Statistics
- Lisa Neider: Mastering Solving & Proper Notation of Geometric and Binomial Probabilities with a Card Sort
- Brianna Kurtz: What the UNESCO Institute of Statistics Can Bring to Your Classroom
- Sarah Johnson: Beastie Boys Inference
- Jenni Clarkin: Tickets to Encourage Discussion in AP Stats
- Adam Shrager: Some of My Favorite “Best Practices”
- Luke Wilcox: Experience First, Formalize Later
- Kevin DeVizia: Pi Day Penny Pitching
- Miller: AP Statistics March / April / May Madness
- Jessica Rapp and Mandi Kraemer: Inference for Success
- Christina Watkins: Trace the Falcon
- Diane Briggs: Probability from Venn Diagrams
- Lisa Brock: Musical Chairs: 5 Significance Tests in 5 Minutes
2018: most links below are Powerpoints. Visit my Dropbox for all files
- Doug Tyson: The Last Banana YouTube Video
- Bob Lochel: Assembling the Model Solution Blog Post
- Sarah Johnson: The Flint Water Crisis: The Power of a P-Value
- Laura Ziegler: Interpreting Histograms Class Handout
- Kelly Spoon: Card Sorts for Statistics! Online Resources
- James Bush: The Darth Vader Rule
- Amy Hogan and Alexandra Brennan: Fake Data Class Handout Blog Post
- Jason Dahl: Group MC Tests
- Stephen Laber: Brain Cancer and Flipping Coins
- Bridget Matamoros: Dowsing for Water Blog post
- Mike Pugliese: Estimating r with ellipses
- Jamie Perrett: What do these error bars tell us?
- Luke Wilcox: 150 Days of AP Stats The Stats Medic website
- Darla Emerson: Break In
- Abel Maestas: Mr. Maestas and the Great Extrapolation Race
- Darin Clifft: Confidence Intervals: A Performance Piece
- Leigh Nataro: Stand and Talk Blog post
2017: Speaker links below are pdf files. Visit my DropBox for the full files.
- Paul Rodriguez: Statistics with Fishes
- Lara Schultz: Solving the Monty Hall Problem – A Simulation Activity Activity Handout
- Steve Willott: There’s a bit more to that “you fool” bear video
- Kyle Greene: Computer Science and Statistics…the wedding.
- Carla Hill: Number of Letters in Your Name vs. Scrabble Value of Your Name
- Luci Thomas: Stacking the Deck
- Dru Martin: Making it Stick – Measures of Success
- Beth Johnson: Using the “AP style grading model” in Undergraduate Introductory Statistics Classes
- Jeff Eicher: Sampling GPAs – Interpreting Confidence Levels
- Bridget Matamoros: That’s a bunch of WeiBULL
- Beth Rothfuss: Random Homework
- John Bennett: Simulated Series and Simulation Excel
- Kathy Dickensheets: Breakout of the AP Classroom
- Chris Viste: Post Exam Day Activities
- Mandi Kraemer: The Final Countdown – Last-Minute AP Review Strategies
- Doug Tyson: My First Class: Smelling Parkinson’s Disease
Looking for highlights from previous best practices night presentations? Visit the archive at Jason Molesky’s Statsmonkey site
MISCELLANEOUS SHENNANIGANS
- 2016 Fun Run Video
- The “World Famous” Stealing Soda Video
- The Starfish Story…
- …and the related Starfish video
AP STATISTICS READING HISTORY, Curated by Sue Hvizdos
| Travel Day (6/1) | Welcome to Tampa! Apparel distribution day (Nick Simonetti) Acorn Orientation Meeting – Hall A, 9:00pm Father acorn: Nicolas Simonetti, and Mother acorn: Jennifer Coltellino |
| Day 1 (6/2) | The reading begins! 8am, bright and early! Geochaching, 7pm (Bill Gottschalk) Meet in front of the Convention Center Hometown shirt day |
| Day 2 (6/3) | Best Practices Night (Bridget Matamoros) – 7pm, Ballroom A Recording will be available after the reading. Geeky shirt day |
| Day 3 (6/4) | College Board Open Forum – Ballroom A College (green) vs HS (blue) shirt day |
| Day 4 (6/5) | Dine-Out Night Baseball Game Outing (Zion Goss) Favorite team jersey / shirt day |
| Day 5 (6/6) | Fun-Run Night (Erica Chauvet, James, Bush, Luke Wilcox) – 7pm at the Riverwalk Trail AP Statistics shirt day |
| Day 6 (6/7) | Professional Night Speaker Dr. Prince Afriyie – “Integrating Data Engineering Perspectives into Introductory Statistics Courses” 7pm, Ballroom A Alumni shirt day |
| Day 7 (6/8) | Closing Night Funstravaganza (June Beighley) Food and drinks at 6pm, program at 7:15pm. Ballroom A. Tropical / Beach / Hawaiian shirt day |
| Travel Day (6/9) | Goodbye Tampa! Hello…??? |
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