U.S. Department of Education: Promoting Educational Excellence for all Americans

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Science Education in the 21st Century; using the tools of science to teach science
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Slide 4

The state of affairs

(mostly research from undergraduate physics)

1. Problem solving methods. from E. Mazur, very popular, dedicated Harvard Prof. ref. Peer Instruction, by E. Mazur Prentice Hall, 1997

Most students could calculate voltages and currents in this fairly complex (to physicist) electrical circuit.

Ask same students what happens to brightness of light bulbs when switched closed. Embarrassingly simple (to physicist).

Most students could not do!!