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Article #698math and conceptual physics
From: GARY HEMMINGER
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:30
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:30
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I agree very much with those who advocate the need for understanding, and have found that the best work on improved approaches to physics teaching (Arons' "Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching, Hestenes' FCI, Sherwood's new "Electrical and Magnetic Interactions", Laws' Workshop Physics, Hakes' SDI labs and so on) always grow out of a concern for and recognition of student understanding (and misunderstanding). However, as Arnold Arons once remarked concerning "conceptual Physics", there seems today to be a general tendency to pander to our students' weaknesses and "interests". Thus I have heard some of our math teachers say that they will cut back on drilling of basic skills such as factoring. For a high school physics course just how much "math" are we actually talking about? Very little from what I can see. Gary Hemminger Dwight-Englewood School Englewood, NJ
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