AP Statistics– Experienced #2022

This course is designed primarily for experienced teachers (at least 2 or 3 years) of AP Statistics. Some of the topics to be addressed include favorite activities to use throughout the year, understanding ANOVA, multiple regression, asking sensitive questions (randomized response), and some alternative activities for blocking and sampling. We will also spend time working with activities and simulations for building sampling distributions and using simulations as a common theme throughout the year. Time is built in to pursue areas of the course of common interest to participants. We will also explore Minitab 17 and potentially Fathom software if it is still available. It will be necessary for teachers to bring a PC laptop. Thirty-day evaluation copies of Minitab 17 will be downloaded and, if available, we will download the Fathom evaluation copy at the start of the Institute. The handouts for the week will be emailed to you in an electronic file before the start of the Institute so you can load them on your laptop and/or print them out. A flash drive will be provided on the first day, which will include lessons, worksheets, class note sheets, old tests, AP practice sets, projects, and activities. Participants will review the 2016 test, through sample questions, rubrics and the grading of student responses. Participants are asked to bring activities and handouts to share that are your favorites and have worked well in your classroom. Participants are also required to bring graphing calculators with statistical capabilities. Quite a few calculator programs useful for demonstrating/teaching concepts will be shared. The programs are all loaded on a TI-84, so participants should bring a machine that would be compatible for sharing these programs.

Michael is a past member of the AP Statistics Development Committee (2001-2005) and a former Table Leader at the Reading. He currently reads the Alternate and Overseas Exams. He has been a lead teacher at many AP Summer Institutes over the past fourteen years, and is a frequent presenter at College Board conferences. Michael was the statistics content editor for the series, Laying the Foundation: Connecting to AP Mathematics funded by the O’Donnell Foundation. He has also authored the Prep for the AP Exam Guide for Yates, Moore, and Starnes’s The Practice of Statistics TI 83/89 Graphing Calculator Enhanced, 3rd edition and is the author of the 2007 College Board AP Statistics Teacher’s Guide. He authored the Teacher‘s Resource Binder to accompany Statistics Through Applications 2e, the non-AP sister text to Yates, Moore, and Starnes’ The Practice of Statistics 3e. He has also authored the AP-style multiple-choice and free-response cumulative review sections for The Practice of Statistics for AP* 4e as well as the Prep for the AP Exam Guide 4e. Michael also authored the practice exams for the Strive for a 5 Guide (Molesky/Legacy) to accompany The Practice of Statistics for AP* 5e and was a reviewer for the Annotated Teacher's Edition 5e. He is currently writing the test and quizzes which will accompany Statistics and Probability with Applications (SPA 3e), the non-AP equivalent to TPS 5e.

In February 2010, Michael was honored by the Siemens Corporation as the Texas AP Math/Science Teacher of the year. He served as an AP statistics consultant to Pasadena ISD (TX) for 2010-12 under the auspices of the National Math + Science Initiative and currently fills the same role for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (TX) and Birdville ISD (TX). In addition to being the pre-K -12 Math Chair, Michael teaches AP Statistics and Honors Precalculus at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas.