Stats, Common Core Style

  Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Scott Yates and t he 110-95-80 Plan 3. The Author of the Lunisolar Modified Gregorian Calendar 4. Year-Round DST and School Start Times 5. But What About Circadian Rhythms? 6. What If? COVID-91 and COVID-93 7. What If? COVID-96 8. My Plans for April 9.  Cheng's  Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 16 10. Conclusion Introduction This is my second and final spring break post. In this post, I plan on catching up with a few topics that I don't have time to discuss during teaching time, but only now during vacation time. And we begin with my biannual Daylight Saving Time post. I know, this post is late since it's been two weeks since we set the clocks forward. But this post is timed perfectly for Europe, where clocks will be set forward to Summer Time tonight. But the focus in this post isn't on Europe, but on the US, where the Senate has just passed a bill allowing for Year-Round Summer Time in 2023. As I've mentioned in t...

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Ethnostats Final 3. The Trig Final 4. Fawn Nguyen: Number Talks for Middle Schoolers 5. Phones in the Classroom: From 4 Years Ago 6. Phones in the Classroom: From 10 Years Ago 7. Cheng's Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 15 8. Conclusion Introduction This is my first spring break post, which means I did it -- I've finally  finished writing those final exams that I promised to write. And at least I finished them before the last day of the break. Then again, I only had to write two exams -- Ethnostats and Trig. I heard back from the AP Calculus teacher at the main high school, and he tells me that he doesn't assign finals to his AP class either. Instead, he will assign some sort of multimedia project after the AP exam. And so it makes sense for me to do the same with my own Calculus students. And so that left me with only two tests to write. I wrote the Trig final yesterday, and most of today I spend creating the Ethnostats ...