INFORMATION FOR AP STATISTICS READERS
| Travel Day (6/10) | Welcome to Kansas City! Apparel distribution day (Nick Simonetti) Acorn Orientation Meeting, 8pm |
| Day 1 (6/11) | The reading begins! 8am, bright and early! Geochaching (Bill Gottschalk) |
| Day 2 (6/12) | College Board Forum |
| Day 3 (6/13) | Annual 95% Confidence / 1.96 Mile Fun Run (James Bush) |
| Day 4 (6/14) | Dine-Out Night Royals Game Outing (Zion Goss) |
| Day 5 (6/15) | Best Practices Night (Doug Tyson, Bridget Matamoros, Darin Clift) |
| Day 6 (6/16) | Professional Night Speaker |
| Day 7 (6/17) | Closing Night Funstravaganza (June Beighley) |
| Travel Day (6/18) | Goodbye Kansas City! |
BEST PRACTICES NIGHT PRESENTATIONS
2022: Bridget Matamoros has assembled this year’s presentations into a nifty, fun-to-follow Nearpod lesson: https://app.nearpod.com/presentation?pin=nm7uf
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
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