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Meet Jeff, a creator of AP Statistics on Khan Academy | AP Statistics | Khan Academy


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·Nov 11, 2024

I was a teacher for 10 years in Kazu Public Schools. They're a midsize urban district in Southwest Michigan. In my first three years, I taught Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2—the core math classes. But I also taught an introductory statistics course. Then, in my fourth year teaching, I started teaching AP Statistics and taught it for my last seven years.

I love how AP courses really stretch students and give them a chance to really challenge themselves. They take on a subject and a curriculum that is just a little bit harder than a standard high school curriculum might be for them. It prepares them for a level of rigor in college that can be intimidating for a lot of students when they first enter a college course. However, students who take AP classes, in my experience, tend to feel more comfortable once they get to college.

I discovered Khan Academy when a coworker of mine showed it to me. This was back when Khan Academy first started, and a coworker showed it to me. I could actually get students the practice they needed. Often, they needed it at home as well because our students would, for various reasons, miss a lot of days of school. So getting students the help they needed in the class or outside of the classroom, Khan Academy was a great help.

When I was an AP teacher, I liked to use a variety of methods for engaging my students with the concepts we were learning. Some days, I liked to give a lecture on the material; on other days, maybe play a game, do a simulation, or let them be self-paced in some review problems. Khan Academy offers a way for teachers to do that in their classrooms.

You have content creators like myself working at Khan Academy who have been teachers teaching AP for many years. We also have external reviewers who work closely with the College Board and who are table readers and grade the AP test—all working together to make sure that the content is high quality for students.

In my entire career as a teacher, I felt like I was doing the world good by teaching multiple groups of students a subject that I thought would be incredibly useful for their professional, academic, and everyday lives. Teaching statistics, I feel like I'm equipping students with how to make informed decisions in their lives.

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