Articles Tagged with science teaching

time and tide

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Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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Teaching old things

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The uses of the obsolete

Something that’s no longer used can still be illuminating.

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The theoretical piston

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A useful idea

We ask a chicken-and-egg question about a textbook staple.

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Rewriting the textbooks

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When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Programmable (III)

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The right problem

Why do we only teach the easy problems?

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The hodograph

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Dropped from the program

We encounter things that are no longer taught.

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Take note

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From the archives

Our consultants review some old writings.

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Nobel or teaching?

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Considering Feynman

We wonder where a scientist made the most impact.

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Know thyself

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Learning and testing

Constructing a useful test can be very difficult.

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In the back of the book

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The right answer

How did the answers in the answer key get there?

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