BEST PRACTICES NIGHT PRESENTATIONS
2026: This year, you can access ALL of the slides in one handy Google Slides deck! Best Practices Slides
This year’s Best Practices Night included talks from these great folks in the Statistics community:
- Penny Smeltzer: Lessons That Matter
- Dash Young Saver: Probability Without Formulas
- RJ Orr: Sports and Prediction Markets
- Kathleen Cooey: After the AP Exam
- Josh Argo: Adapting FRQs to the New CED
- Paul Buckley: Sampling Distributions
- Kathryn Madary: Introducing CI’s
- Michael Posner: A Penny for Your Thoughts
- Luke Wilcox: Math Medic for the New CED
2025:
- 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 – Ballroom A, 8:30pm Father acorn: Nicolas Simonetti, and Mother acorn: Jennifer Coltellino |
| Day 1 (6/2) | The reading begins! 8am, bright and early! Geocaching, 6pm (Bill Gottschalk) Meet in front of the Convention Center Trivia Night – James Joyce Pub, 7pm Hometown shirt day |
| Day 2 (6/3) | College Board Open Forum – Ballroom A Geeky shirt day |
| Day 3 (6/4) | Professional Night – “30 Years of AP Statistics!” Recording will be available after the reading. “Color Your Experience” shirt day |
| Day 4 (6/5) | Dine-Out Night Baseball Game Outing (Zion Goss) AP Statistics shirt day |
| Day 5 (6/6) | Fun-Run Night (Erica Chauvet, James, Bush, Luke Wilcox) – 7pm at the Riverwalk Trail Favorite team jersey / shirt day |
| Day 6 (6/7) | Best Practices Night (Darin Clift) – 7pm, Ballroom A Recording will be available after the reading. 7pm, Ballroom A Alumni shirt day |
| Day 7 (6/8) | Closing Night Funstravaganza 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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