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Solving Teacher Problems- Making it Easier to Be Better | i^i
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Attempting to build logical structures from a mathematical mess. Fo' real! Trying (and Failing) Not to Argue with Idiots. What I Am Looking For In a #MTBoS →. Solving Teacher Problems- Making it Easier to Be Better. January 4, 2016. When I was hired into my current position, one of the first things I told my principal was that my goal was to have the best math department in New Mexico in 5 to 10 years. I added that I didn’t believe one accomplishes this feat by hiring Rock Star Teachers. And yes, this is...
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A Best-Case Scenario | A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? | Page 2
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Newer posts →. Coming (Back) to Our Census. Reflecting on the continuing, unexpected, and frustrating malaise that is Math 102, Probability and Statistics, one of my ongoing problems has been the deterioration of Fathom. It shouldn’t matter that much that we can’t get Census data any more, but I find that I miss it a great deal; and I think that it was a big part of what made stats so engaging at Lick. Continue reading →. A number of ...
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Quick Check-in | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Blood in the Aisles →. Okay: one class down, 27 to go. The big problem right now is scheduling “lab” time, and extra hour a week that will make up the rest of the time we need to get through the material and learn the stuff that’s not in the ISCAM text, such as EDA and more probability. I did start with good old Aunt Belinda. I’ll know a lot more next week. View all posts by Tim Erickson →. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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Tim Erickson | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Author Archives: Tim Erickson. Math-science ed freelancer and sometime math teacher. In 2014 15, at Mills College in Oakland, California. Let me encourage you to go to your hardware store and get some hexnuts. You won’t regret it. Now let’s see if I can write a post about it in under, like, four hours. (Also, get a micrometer on eBay … Continue reading →. DASL Updated. Mostly improved. The Index of Clumpiness, Part Three: One Dimension.
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Bayes is Baaack | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Teaching Stats Again →. Screen shot from Fathom showing prior (left) and posterior (right) distributions for a situation where you flip a coin 8 times and heads comes up once. Theta is the imagined probability of heads for the coin. Here’s what I just posted on the apstat listserv; refer to the illustration above:. Since it’s Fathom, it updates dynamically. Not an AP topic. But should it be? Here’s a link to the post. You are commenti...
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Randomization | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? The Subjunctive Thing →. If you’re not a stats maven, this may sound esoteric, but let’s see if I can express it well. One of the things that’s hard to learn in orthodox statistics is the whole machinery of statistical tests. You can. Yourself (or a monkey) to do it right, but it seems to be a morass of weird rules and formulas. Remember to divide by (. George Cobb wrote a terrific article. Here’s the basic idea, to which we wil...
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Resources | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? DASL, the Data and Story Library. A great collection, recently remastered. Great stuff about kids from the Annie E Casey foundation. Not microdata, but still good. From the Kaiser Family Foundation. Terrifying microdata (use their query tool) from NHTSA’s Fatal Accident Reporting System. National health survey data from 2002 2003. Choose attributes and sample size, and download or do the magic Fathom drag! Secrets of the Fathom Masters.
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Teaching Stats Again | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Quick Check-in →. It’s Sunday. On Thursday, Math 102 Statistics and Probability has its first meeting at Mills College, and I am allegedly in charge. This is a one-semester course, and at the college level, calculus required, in contrast to the year-long, high-school, non-AP classes I taught a few years ago. So we will have to move pretty fast, but the students have more experience, which I hope will mostly be a good thing. So we can ...
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Blood in the Aisles | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Coming (Back) to Our Census →. Blood in the Aisles. I don’t quite know how Beth does it! We’re using Beth Chance and Allan Rossman’s ISCAM text. I even went to SLO to watch Beth Herself run this very activity. It seemed to go fine. But for my class, it was not a happy experience for the students. There was a great deal of confusion about what exactly was going on, coupled with some disgruntlement that we were moving so slowly. And che...
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Coming (Back) to Our Census | A Best-Case Scenario
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A math teacher gets everything he wants. What could possibly go wrong? Blood in the Aisles. Talking is so not enough →. Coming (Back) to Our Census. So I’ve tried to make it accessible in kinda the same way I did the NHANES data. This time we have Census data instead of health. At this page here. All from California. (There are a lot more cases in the file I downloaded; I just took the first 21,000 or so so we could get an idea what’s going on.). The effort, which was kind of fun, and almost works proper...
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