E a r l y B i r d 🦜
The 2026 AP® Calculus Free Response Questions are officially here, and we wasted no time diving in. While College Board’s scoring guidelines won’t arrive until later this summer, we’ve put together our own early solutions so you can start unpacking this year’s exam right away. As always, these are our best first pass, so please be gentle if you find any errors.
Reviewing the FRQs with students can be a great way to close out the week. We recommend having students work in groups on some of the questions and then going over solutions.
Head to our blog (link in bio) to read the full post, and check out the early AP Precalc solutions while you're at it!
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T i c k T o c k ⏱️
Have you ever found it difficult to get through an entire EFFL lesson in one class period? Do you wish there were an easier and more effective way to keep you and your students accountable for moving through the lesson?
In today's blog post (link in bio), longtime Math Medic teacher Alex Freuman from New York shares his free digital tool to help him stay on track while teaching. Read about how his customizable lesson pacer works and how it changed his facilitation of EFFL lessons. Then try it out for yourself!
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E a r l y S o l u t i o n s 🐐
With big changes coming to the AP Exam for next year, the 2026 AP Stats Exam represents the end of an era. The last AP Stats exam to have six free response questions. The last AP Stats exam to be graded with E, P, and I. The last AP Stats exam to have an Investigative Task (RIP).
As far as predictions, we chose the wrong significance test (although chi-square did show up in Question #5), but we were right on a few other guesses (describe relationship, make a prediction, joint and conditional probability).
As is tradition now, here is our first attempt at solutions. Please be gentle if we made any mistakes!
Visit the Math Medic Blog (link in bio) for the solutions!
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G l o w U p 🪄
We've got exciting news! Math Medic is launching its brand new Intro Stats curriculum for the 2026-2027 school year. This course will now include assessments, videos, and teacher support resources through the Math Medic Plus subscription. Even the lesson activities (which are and will always be free!!) got a refresh, now with no overlapping contexts with the AP Stats lessons.
Our goals with the new Intro Stats curriculum:
- Give students foundational knowledge in statistics to be intelligent consumers of data.
- Emphasize deep understanding and statistical reasoning, while easing the burden of highly specific AP-style communication requirements.
- Cover all the Common Core Statistics standards, while adding some standards we think should be included (like multiple regression!).
- Allow teachers to decide what technology to use for the course (calculators, applets, Desmos).
- Empower teachers with all the resources needed to teach the course without a textbook.
Find out more by visiting the Math Medic Blog!
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G u e s s W h a t 🤔
Every year, we spend some time making predictions about what will appear on the free-response section of the AP Exam. We use past exams, our gut instincts, and just a bit of whim 🔮 to help us make these predictions. Of course, we're only guessing and have no insider information, so we do expect to be very wrong on some of our predictions (but hopefully we get some correct as well!).
Visit the Math Medic Blog (link in bio) to check out our predictions for each course and download a blank version of the document to complete with your students as an in-class activity. You can even have your students make their own guesses!
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E F F L ➕
EFFL. \ef-fle\. - the act of students working collaboratively to think, discuss, and construct their own understanding of new content before the teacher helps students arrive at formal definitions and formulas. Experience First, Formalize Later.
EFFL is the teaching model we've been using since we started Math Medic several years ago. We know this method works to give students and teachers a better classroom experience.
Join the revolution today. Visit our website (link in bio) to find out more about how you can transform your math classroom for the better!
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F i n i s h S t r o n g 💪
In our last post, we discussed why re-teaching may not be the best option for end-of-semester review, and actually may cause some problematic effects. So what do we do instead? You can find a collection of our favorite review activities to help students synthesize the content and concepts from the semester and prepare for exams on our blog.
Visit the Math Medic Blog, and search "reteaching." There, you can find both posts on this topic, part 2 of which will have the review activities.
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S a g e O n T h e S t a g e 📢
As we approach the last few weeks of the semester, we're starting to think about reviewing before exams. In my early years of teaching high school math, I thought preparing students for the exam meant reteaching as much of the content as possible. I planned lectures and study guides that covered all of the big ideas from the semester. I felt like my students were totally prepared and were going to rock the test.
Spoiler Alert: They didn't.
So the next semester, I'd do even more reteaching and more practice problems, but the scores didn't improve. Reteaching the material wasn't helping students. In fact, I would argue that it was actually hurting them.
Let's talk about why. Visit our blog (link in bio), and search "Review Without Reteaching" to read part 1 of this series. Look out for part 2 later this week!
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E F F L 1 0 1 💻
Interested in getting training on EFFL? While we love getting to visit your district and meet you in-person, we also have a virtual summer option that you can attend individually or with your whole department. As an added bonus, you'll get to collaborate with EFFL friends from across the country! Here are some of the questions we'll be answering in this workshop:
- What does an EFFL lesson look like in a typical high school math classroom?
- How can we use questioning to help students make connections between previous learning and new content?
- What are the best strategies to get students discussing and working collaboratively?
Register for this workshop or any of our other summer programming via the link in our bio!
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R e v i e w C i r c u i t s 🔌
As we're nearing the final weeks before the AP Exam, we love doing review activities that challenge students to think about content from the whole year. Nothing does that better than one of Virge Cornelius' review circuits! Today, we're bringing you the Math Medic Ultimate Review Circuit for each of our AP courses.
Suggestions for using the circuit with students:
-Have students work on the circuit in pairs or small groups. You'll hear great conversations among students and engagement is always high.
-The answers are written to be intentionally similar and draw out common misconceptions, so don't be nervous if most of your groups have to course-correct at some point during the circuit. This is where the real learning happens!
-Have students write on whiteboards or vertical non-permanent surfaces to quickly assess the progress of various groups.
-Go through the circuit on your own first! This will make you aware of places students may get stuck and get you an answer key at the same time.
Head to our blog (link in bio) and search, "circuit."
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M e m e M o n d a y 🎡
We print your student handouts. We bind them. We ship them to your classroom.
You get one beautiful, full-color, spiral-bound workbook for every student, containing all lesson handouts for your entire course, organized and ready to go from day one. No paper jams. No toner alerts. No 7 AM sprints to the supply closet. Just open the box, hand out the books, and teach.
$13 per student workbook. That's it. Really.
See for yourself. Visit our website (link in bio), and we'll make a belieber...BELIEVER out of you!
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