This summer (and in the evenings now) I worked as a contributing author for CPM’s new Statistics textbook. This semester, while writing lessons for the second semester at night I’ve been piloting the first semester during the day. One quarter of the year in, this is my review and preview post! For those who might notRead More
The MTBoS has changed so much about how I teach and so much about how I think about teaching.This year I am using number talks, visual patterns, Desmos activities, and other things that I would not know about or be comfortable with without the MTBoS, and I stand forever grateful for that. But as IRead More
Okay, MTBoSBlaugest, you are defeating me slightly. To soothe your savagery, here is a very short post on group role table cards I made. These are designed to match the team role posters I made a few days ago. I have five groups in all of my classes this year, so I will use a shuffledRead More
Don’t you hate it when you go to a conference, or see a speaker, and it up-ends all of your plans? I am teaching a non-AP statistics class for the first time this year. The way our system is set up, this class consists of almost entirely seniors who have had a hard time throughoutRead More
At my recommendation, one of our all-faculty reads this summer was Make it Stick, which means that hopefully the language of the book will be buzzing around our school a bit. I really want to jump on that; I’m spiraling homework and assessments in all classes this year, in response to the book and CPMRead More
My first three years of teaching, I had my own classrooms. And my school had a thermal poster maker, and really big rooms (with 16 foot ceilings!) So I made a LOT of posters.For the last seven years, however, I’ve shared classrooms. And my poster-making has faded to essentially nothing. This year, for the firstRead More
CPM makes textbooks that live on paper, but in AP Stats we are taking the leap and assuming that most classes have access to at least a few computers for demonstration and exploration. So what does this mean? Stats applets! Most textbooks come with a series of statistics applets that help demonstrate concepts. For example, appletsRead More
Writing for the CPM AP Statistics text started with a week at a Homewood Suites in Minneapolis right across the street from the Mall of America. I didn’t get out much, other than when I got to eat dinner with @VeganMathBeagle and @trianglemancsd on my first night and one night out with the whole writing group.Read More
I have not blogged much this summer, partially because I’ve been working. Working hard. On this: Yes. CPM, the creator of the student-centered geometry book that blew my mind, is creating an AP Statistics book. And I’m helping to write it. And, having complete control over the AP Statistics curriculum in my school, I’m also usingRead More
I teach at a school of pretty extreme go-getters, and I decided to embrace that for my review period this year in AP Stats. Rather than do too much review together, I decided to base make review a primarily self-directed affair. They are required to complete three different things by the AP Exam, at theirRead More
