My students need the flying frogs, catapult top, and car to design experiments and test hypothesis. The cards, dice and tiles will help when studying probability.
Did you have to take Statistics in college? My Stats class felt like the professor just threw formulas at us. Today's AP Stats class is much more experiment driven. It's no longer memorizing the formula, but interpreting the results.
This is the first year our district is offering AP Statistics.
I have one class with 23 students enrolled. They are juniors and seniors who are all enrolled in at least one other AP class. The students will take a test in May to try to earn college credit. We are located in a suburban city in Oklahoma.
My Project
As I am still learning, AP Statistics is all about generating data. We will use the dice and cards to randomly assign items to experiments. We will design experiments and test hypothesis with the catapults, tops, cars, and frogs. We will study probability with the dice, cards, color tiles and marbles. I am finding that when the students use numbers that they have generated, it makes more sense to them.
As I think about the statistics workshops I have attended, the topics that I remember best had activities that went with them.
The ones where we were just given data don't stick with me as well as the ones we designed ourselves. I want to be able to give my students the same type of activities, to help them personalize their learning experience.
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