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LEE KUCERA
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LEE KUCERA Ph.D
has been a Lecturer at UC Irvine for Statistics 7, an undergraduate intro course comparable to AP Statistics for eight years. She retired as the mathematics department chair at Capistrano Valley High School, Mission Viejo, CA, where she taught AP Statistics and IB Math Studies. She continued to teach AP Statistics part-time at three Capistrano Unified high schools after retirement for three years. She taught AP Statistics and has served as a grader since the course’s inception in 1996-97 and including the 2020 and 2021 “Distributed Readings”, and back in-person in 2022. She has been a College Board consultant since 2001, presenting both weekend workshops and summer institutes throughout the United States and internationally.
She reviews Statistics textbooks and AP Statistics review materials for several major publishers, Kahn Academy, and AP Central. She wrote curriculum materials for Texas Instruments for use with their graphing calculators and recently revised the graphing calculator appendix for the latest edition of Stats, Modeling the World. She is a member of the American Statistical Association and has had students enter and win both local and national recognition in their student competitions. She helped run the annual AP Statistics Student Poster Competition of her local ASA chapter for many years.
Lee enjoys traveling (when we’re not in a pandemic), reading, spending time at the beach with her daughter (an AP Econ and APUSH teacher) and 6-year-old granddaughter. She is also an active volunteer at the Assistance League in Laguna Beach, sings in her church choir. and is a T3 Regional Instructor.
Contact her at LEKucera@cox.net or lkucera@uci.edu
has been a Lecturer at UC Irvine for Statistics 7, an undergraduate intro course comparable to AP Statistics for eight years. She retired as the mathematics department chair at Capistrano Valley High School, Mission Viejo, CA, where she taught AP Statistics and IB Math Studies. She continued to teach AP Statistics part-time at three Capistrano Unified high schools after retirement for three years. She taught AP Statistics and has served as a grader since the course’s inception in 1996-97 and including the 2020 and 2021 “Distributed Readings”, and back in-person in 2022. She has been a College Board consultant since 2001, presenting both weekend workshops and summer institutes throughout the United States and internationally.
She reviews Statistics textbooks and AP Statistics review materials for several major publishers, Kahn Academy, and AP Central. She wrote curriculum materials for Texas Instruments for use with their graphing calculators and recently revised the graphing calculator appendix for the latest edition of Stats, Modeling the World. She is a member of the American Statistical Association and has had students enter and win both local and national recognition in their student competitions. She helped run the annual AP Statistics Student Poster Competition of her local ASA chapter for many years.
Lee enjoys traveling (when we’re not in a pandemic), reading, spending time at the beach with her daughter (an AP Econ and APUSH teacher) and 6-year-old granddaughter. She is also an active volunteer at the Assistance League in Laguna Beach, sings in her church choir. and is a T3 Regional Instructor.
Contact her at LEKucera@cox.net or lkucera@uci.edu
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Description:
The AP Statistics session is designed for beginning as well as experienced teachers; it will prepare new teachers to develop and present an effective AP Statistics program and help more experienced AP teachers refine and improve upon their existing statistics teaching skills. Over the course of this institute we will discuss:
1. Topics included in the AP Statistics Course and Exam Description (C.E.D.) – review of content plus activities and other suggestions for teaching the content
2. Graphing Calculator usage; statistical software for AP Statistics
3. Teaching styles/strategies
4. Textbooks, websites and other resources for AP teachers
5. The AP exam format, exam preparation and scoring
Instructional formats will include presentations, activities, group discussions, problem-solving sets and more.
Special Instructions:
Participants are asked to bring information about their course textbook, calculators, and any software used. They will need a TI-84+ or TI-Nspire graphing calculator, a laptop computer and printer, and writing materials. College Board materials will be provided by the Institute and participants will have access to online materials from the consultant.
AGENDA
Topics will include lecture and discussion, practice (released AP questions and other questions), activities, project ideas, and videos as appropriate. More than one topic may be covered in a session and some topics may take more than one day.
Order is subject to change—time frames are approximate. All needed materials can be found on our OneDrive.
1. Introduction—Day 1 morning
2. CED, AP Classroom and other Resources—Day 1 morning
3. CED Units 1 & 2: Exploring Data—Day 1 afternoon
4. Designing Your Course—Day 2 morning
5. Equity and Access—Day 2 morning
Go through PowerPoint; Watch video: Danger of a Single Story
Look at Equity and Access Brief and two racial bias studies, be prepared to discuss in afternoon
6. CED Unit 3: Study Design—Day 2 morning, afternoon
7. CED Units 4 & 5: Probability—Day 3 morning
8. AP Strategies—Day 3 morning, afternoon
9. CED Units 6, 7, 8 & 9: Inference—Day 3, afternoon, Day 4 morning
10. Instructional Planning Report—Day 4 morning
Questions?
11. Exam Review—Day 4 afternoon
AP Statistics Exam Advice
12. After the Exam—Day 4 afternoon
Final Statistics Project Guidelines, Guest speakers, Careers in Statistics
Asynchronous work “homework”:
Day 1:
Relax! The APSI is over! But now, look at some Videos! Think about how you could use them:
AP Classroom or AP YouTube video: https://myap.collegeboard.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/advancedplacement
Against All Odds videos: (check out “Random Variables”: Challenger space shuttle and “Causation”: smoking and cancer) https://www.learner.org/series/against-all-odds-inside-statistics/
Khan Academy AP Stats video: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-statistics
Stats Medic Video: https://www.statsmedic.com/ced-ap-stats
Skew the Script video: https://skewthescript.org
Course Description:
The AP Statistics session is designed for beginning as well as experienced teachers; it will prepare new teachers to develop and present an effective AP Statistics program and help more experienced AP teachers refine and improve upon their existing statistics teaching skills. Over the course of this institute we will discuss:
1. Topics included in the AP Statistics Course and Exam Description (C.E.D.) – review of content plus activities and other suggestions for teaching the content
2. Graphing Calculator usage; statistical software for AP Statistics
3. Teaching styles/strategies
4. Textbooks, websites and other resources for AP teachers
5. The AP exam format, exam preparation and scoring
Instructional formats will include presentations, activities, group discussions, problem-solving sets and more.
Special Instructions:
Participants are asked to bring information about their course textbook, calculators, and any software used. They will need a TI-84+ or TI-Nspire graphing calculator, a laptop computer and printer, and writing materials. College Board materials will be provided by the Institute and participants will have access to online materials from the consultant.
AGENDA
Topics will include lecture and discussion, practice (released AP questions and other questions), activities, project ideas, and videos as appropriate. More than one topic may be covered in a session and some topics may take more than one day.
Order is subject to change—time frames are approximate. All needed materials can be found on our OneDrive.
1. Introduction—Day 1 morning
- Who am I? Who are you?
- Introduction to AP Central
- Distracted Driving Activity
2. CED, AP Classroom and other Resources—Day 1 morning
- tour of the CED and AP Classroom resources
- Custom Pacing—start planning your year
3. CED Units 1 & 2: Exploring Data—Day 1 afternoon
- Univariate data—descriptive statistics:
- Mean, median, standard deviation, five-number summary
- Boxplots, dotplots, histograms, stem-and-leaf plots
- Bivariate data—scatterplots, linear regression
4. Designing Your Course—Day 2 morning
- AP Course Audit
- AP Statistics Resources
- Chapter Exam Grading
- Technology for AP Statistics—statistical software, graphing calculators
5. Equity and Access—Day 2 morning
Go through PowerPoint; Watch video: Danger of a Single Story
Look at Equity and Access Brief and two racial bias studies, be prepared to discuss in afternoon
6. CED Unit 3: Study Design—Day 2 morning, afternoon
- Sampling design
- Experimental design
- Bias vs error
7. CED Units 4 & 5: Probability—Day 3 morning
- Probability review—addition and multiplication rules (and/or), conditional probability
- Random variables, Binomial distribution, normal distribution
- Central Limit Theorem—sampling distributions
8. AP Strategies—Day 3 morning, afternoon
- Watch video: Leigh Nataro, Instructional Strategies
- Go through Presentation—AP Strategies—prepare for activity
- Strategy Planning Template
9. CED Units 6, 7, 8 & 9: Inference—Day 3, afternoon, Day 4 morning
- Point Estimate vs Confidence Intervals for one and two proportions
- Hypothesis tests for one and two proportions—Hypothesis Testing Steps
- Definition of P-Value
- Confidence intervals for one and two means
- Gossett and the t-Distribution
- Hypothesis tests for one and two means
- Matched-pair vs two-sample design
- Type I and Type II Errors, Power of a Test
- X2 Goodness-of-Fit Test, X2 Two-Way Tables
- Regression analysis, Inference computer output
- Which inference procedure to use?
10. Instructional Planning Report—Day 4 morning
Questions?
11. Exam Review—Day 4 afternoon
AP Statistics Exam Advice
12. After the Exam—Day 4 afternoon
Final Statistics Project Guidelines, Guest speakers, Careers in Statistics
Asynchronous work “homework”:
Day 1:
- Review CED Binder: “CED Self-study” PowerPoint and Scavenger Hunt activity
- Create a Timeline/Pacing Guide—use “Planning your course”, the excel Customized Pacing and your school calendar
- Work on AP Audit if needed
- Olympics Worksheet (TI-Nspire and/or TI-84+)
- Continue work on course calendar/timeline
- 2019 #2—twelve (12) minutes maximum time!
- Go through Presentation—AP Strategies PowerPoint; Watch video: Leigh Nataro, Instructional Strategies; prepare for activity, Strategy Planning Template
- Prepare an activity or lesson that you could use in your class that incorporates an element of the CED or Unit Guides—be prepared to share with class. Label your lesson: topic#_title, for example: 3.6_tire experiment design. Email it to me please. Think about what instructional strategies are used.
- "Equity and Access” PPt, “Equity and Access Brief” and two studies (2003 name, 2019 counseling—in folder 0-CB Materials); video (link in PowerPoint or here): Danger of a Single Story; Instructional Planning Report PowerPoint 2009 FRQ#2, 2009 #2—12 minutes each maximum
- Hawthorne Plant problem
- Try “What test to use” applet: http://www.ltcconline.net/greenL/java/statistics/catstatprob/categorizingstatproblemsjavascript.html
- Prepare a second activity or lesson that you could use in your class that incorporates an element of the CED or Unit Guides—be prepared to share with class. Label your lesson: topic#_title, for example: 3.6_tire experiment design. Email it to me please.
- Experienced teachers—one piece of advice for new AP Stats teachers
- Final questions???
Relax! The APSI is over! But now, look at some Videos! Think about how you could use them:
AP Classroom or AP YouTube video: https://myap.collegeboard.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/advancedplacement
Against All Odds videos: (check out “Random Variables”: Challenger space shuttle and “Causation”: smoking and cancer) https://www.learner.org/series/against-all-odds-inside-statistics/
Khan Academy AP Stats video: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-statistics
Stats Medic Video: https://www.statsmedic.com/ced-ap-stats
Skew the Script video: https://skewthescript.org