Chris Franck interviews AP teacher Pawel Nazarewicz, who shares his teaching philosophy, creative teaching methods, and thoughts about AI in education.
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Top 10 Things I Have Learned from ChatGPT
Michael Hansen has taught AP Statistics for 25 years and high-school computer science for about 13 years. This summer, he used ChatGPT to help him write a Python application of about 3,000 lines. Here are his top 10 takeaways from that experience.
Highlights of the March 31 – April 1, 2023, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
The first meeting of the 2023 ASA Board of Directors featured the ASA’s first LinkedIn Live event—a conversation with the ASA Board of Directors.
CHANCE Highlights: April Issue Features Gerrymandering, COVID-19, and the ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’
CHANCE magazine discusses the COVID-19 pandemic, the “gambler’s fallacy,” and fixes for gerrymandering, as well as the death of Alan Paller, the original editor of the Visual Revelations column.
Alyssa Frazee
Alyssa Frazee became interested in statistics during her AP Statistics class in high school, because stats, she discovered, was the tool that helped us cope with uncertainty. Eventually, she earned her PhD in biostatistics and fell in love with programming. She has since dabbled in security, political forecasting, and fraud prevention, but is now a software engineer when she isn’t doing improv or playing the piano.
My ASA Story: Sharon Hessney, Educator
Sharon Hessney is the writer, moderator, and coordinator for “What’s Going On in This Graph?”, a weekly feature of the ASA and New York Times Learning Network.
We Asked, They Answered: AP Stats Learning Community Weighs in on COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused major disruption to most aspects of our lives, but we wondered how teachers in particular are operating in these novel circumstances and reached out to ASA Statistical Ambassador Chris Franklin’s AP Statistics Learning Community to find out. Here, a number of community members provide a view into their new world and offer practical advice for navigating it.
Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Denver
This year, there were 28 participants, including middle- and high-school teachers, teacher educators, students, and statisticians interested in professional development and teaching statistics at the middle- and high-school levels. Workshop participants came from nine states and the District of Columbia.
2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop Attracts a Dozen Teachers
The full-day workshop is designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.
North Carolina Chapter News for January 2019
The North Carolina Chapter partnered with the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, SAS JMP, and RTI International to offer a one-day workshop for high-school statistics teachers on topics relevant to the AP Statistics curriculum.