Girl Math

I attended a Global Math Department webinar hosted by an amazing Mandi Tolen (who apparently saw this idea from Micah Shippee) and I completely fell in love with this project! Basically, the students create a Google Slide with their assigned unit, each unit has topics that must be included on a separate slide, and all slides are put together to create an App for their phone.  It may be helpful to check out this folder with everything relating to this post so you can follow along better. Here's the breakdown... I created a Slides Presentation for each unit in Precalculus (Triangle Trig, Conics, etc.) and labeled what topics needed to be addressed within those units. I also included directions for students to create their own Presentation so that the slides would fit on the screen of a phone (hence, the "app" part of the activity). I shared the folder of all directions and Presentation topics with the students to make life easier for me. They were prompted to choose a ...

With the revamping of the AP Stats curriculum from College Board, I have revamped most of my activities and all of my lesson plans. It has been exhausting to say the least. So when one of my friends (Paul Buckley) shared a spreadsheet of all Beatles song lengths I thought, "How could I use this with my students without reinventing the wheel?" Of course, I always end up reinventing the wheel anyway 😆 This idea occurred to me over Christmas break, so I did have a little time on my hands. When we returned to school from break we were set to begin 2-sample T-tests and I wanted to use the Beatles data for that lesson plan. This meant, I needed another population. I thought about other bands that have created many songs and I went with Led Zeppelin (I listened to them A LOT in high school- but I'm not THAT old).  Well, I googled "Led Zeppelin songs in spreadsheet" and hoped for the best. That did not work out for me. Therefore, I copied a list of their songs ...