{"id":599,"date":"2022-11-11T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T16:30:29","slug":"chaos-in-ap-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/2022\/11\/11\/chaos-in-ap-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos in AP Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Guy Cardwell<\/p>\n<cite>Editor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not typical to witness a teacher confront a raw egg head-on, but this is exactly what Benjamin Buch\u2019s AP Statistics class witnessed last Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe gave no details, just said \u2018brave, competitive and okay with getting messy.\u2019 I was like yeah, sure!\u201d said student Katherine Hayden. Mr. Buch had given few details about an upcoming illustration of probability to students, in order to add an element of surprise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayden and Buch played \u201cegg roulette,\u201d where they took turns smashing an egg from a carton of eight boiled and four uncooked eggs. Each turn, students could practice calculating probability. The exercise wasn\u2019t a simple 4\/12 calculation, since the total number of eggs decreased with each turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buch said, \u201cSimulations are a really confusing idea to kids, and having a high impact activity that grabs attention is a really good way to teach difficult concepts.\u201d He had originally gotten the idea of \u201cegg roulette\u201d from a fellow teacher in California before incorporating it into his class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy philosophy is that activities that students can take part in\u2014 activities that students are actively engaged in and activities where we\u2019re creating data ourselves instead of reading from a table\u2014 are the most memorable,\u201d said Buch. Egg roulette is just one of many projects to come in AP Statistics. During the previous unit, students collected their own data to understand bias in surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStatistics is the most applicable math. You can spend one month in the classroom and go out into the world and do real statistics and answer real questions,\u201d he said. \u201cThe best way to teach statistics is to get out in the real world, generate some data and then analyze it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Nora Malone<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not typical to witness a teacher confront a raw egg head-on, but this is exactly what Benjamin Buch\u2019s AP Statistics class witnessed last Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221023_183940-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}