Doug Tyson

teacher

Doug has taught mathematics and statistics to high school and undergraduate students for more than 25 years. He currently teaches AP Statistics, Intro to Statistics, and Statistical Reasoning in Sports. Doug is committed to increasing the visibility and quality of statistics education around the country. To that end, he happily serves on the NCTM/ASA Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability, works as a Table Leader at the AP Statistics Reading, runs workshops and teacher training events in statistical education around the country, and is an active NCTM and ASA member. Doug's commitment extends to publications on statistics education, which include a College Board curriculum module on random sampling and random assignment (co-author), the Teacher's Edition forStatistics and Probability with Applications, 3rd edition (author), and media supplements to accompany The Practice of Statistics 5th and 6th editions (author and project manager). He has been a speaker at regional and national mathematics education conferences, including NCTM and state conferences.

Outside of work, Doug likes to spend time with his family, hunt and fish, eat corn dogs, and make snow with his homemade snow-making machine.