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 "Randomness Rocks!" – Oct 2012; Rye, NY

AMTNYS Conference "Why Fibonacci?" – Oct 2012; Rye, NY

 

Presentations

PEDAGOGY

Cooperative Learning in Mathematics

The Challenges and Opportunities of Assessment and Grading

NUMBERS AND ALGEBRA

Nothing Costs $200

Try Not To Think About Irrational Numbers

Imaginary Numbers Are REAL!

GEOMETRY

Measuring Angles: 6 Theorems for the Price of One!

Intersecting circles, colliding motorboats, and the ÒpowerÓ of a point

Making Trigonometry Make Sense

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

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

EXTRA GOODIES

What Has 1½ Dimensions?

Why Fibonacci?

Derangements

Financial Planning with a TI