Upcoming Talks and Workshops
NCTM Conference "Lies of Best Fit: Fact and Fiction" – April 2012; Philadelphia, PA
(Online) Statistics for AP Teachers – (6 week course, in two installments) starts June 8, 2012
St Johnsbury AP Institute – (3 one-week sessions, July 2012; St Johnsbury VT
Session II: Using Simulations to Teach and Do Statistics (with Bob Hayden)
Sessions III & IV: Teaching AP Statistics (for new and experienced teachers)
AMTNYS Conference "Why Fibonacci?" – Oct 2012; Rye, NY
Presentations
Cooperative
Learning in Mathematics
The
Challenges and Opportunities of Assessment and Grading
Nothing Costs
$200
Try Not To
Think About Irrational Numbers
Imaginary
Numbers Are REAL!
Measuring Angles:
6 Theorems for the Price of One!
Intersecting
circles, colliding motorboats, and the ÒpowerÓ of a point
Making
Trigonometry Make Sense
The Best Math
Course I Ever Taught
Lines of Best
Fit – Fact and Fiction
Why Variances
Add – And Why It Matters
Is That an
Assumption or a Condition?
Making
Inference Make Sense
Making
Regression Inference Make Sense
Making
Statistics Make Sense (in AP Bio)
Probability
and Statistics in Middle Schools
What Has
1½ Dimensions?
Why
Fibonacci?
Derangements
Financial
Planning with a TI