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Basic skills that kids are lacking

Does the Lorentz factor aid understanding of SR, or obscure it?

How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator?

Physics/math: how much knowledge does a high school teacher need?

The importance of SATs?

Trick questions to prevent guessing : surprising outcomes

Man Made World Lab by Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature

Interval Kinematics

At what age is special relativity taught?

Do old CRT and O-scopes degrade to emit harmful X Rays?

Is a Prof Failing 3/4 of the Senior Year Physics Class Normal? (Stat Phy)

Looking for lab experiments for a High School Physics class

Books vs Screens for Learning

Questions about a parallel plate capacitor apparatus for lab experiments

How to teach errors and uncertainty in an undergraduate setting?

Some thoughts about self-education

New Approach To Tackle College Cost

Shocked

Tungsten Cubes for STEM Education — Looking for Feedback

Are Recent Students All Google Crazy?

I want to help Physics education. What should I do?

Help with leaf electroscope for school use please!

Do you have a working copy of Testworks for Conceptual Physics?

Where Can Teachers Access and Collect Classic PSSC Physics Films from the 1960s?

How can we teach students the difference between sequences and series?

Help with educational research!

AAPT 2025 Summer Meeting Washington DC (August 2025) - are you going?

Rethinking Physics Education

Demonstrating a pinhole camera with a screen projector

Do Physics Riddles Help Students Understand Concepts Better?

How Can Interactive Diagrams Enhance Understanding of Wave Phenomena?

Network analysis of student perceptions of an introductory lab

Have you ever taught HS Physics with the Inquiry Based Approach?

I've started mentoring a small group of students about their science projects

How to get my Math fully brushed up up to Highschool level?

What is the bare minimum necessary to "get" quantum mechanics?

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Practicing the Scientific Method in Middle School

How does physics contribute to environment and sustainability?

Question about something that the 1st year university student should know (how hard to study)

Sources to study basic logic for precocious 10-year old?

What are some less famous equations that you must know as an undergraduate physicist?

Stephen Wolfram explains how ChatGPT works

Extension resource for advanced high school / pre-university students

Is the AAPT 2023 Physics Bowl Answer Key Incorrect?

How to explain AI to middle schoolers?

Help with math terminology in tutorial

Math terminology in my Taylor Series expansion?

Incandescent bulbs in teaching

How is Physics taught without Calculus?

How to explain Bell's theorem to non-scientists

I want to start Tutoring Online -- Looking for Advice

Are excuses for academic parties getting thinner or is it just me?

AAPT 2024 Summer Meeting Boston, MA (July 2024) - are you going?

RIP Edward "Joe" Redish (1942 - 2024), Physics Education

Free Abstract Algebra curriculum in Urdu and Hindi

Kumon Math and Similar Programs

Is "College Algebra" really just high school "Algebra II"?

UK School Physics Exam from 1967

Plagiarism & ChatGPT: Is Cheating with AI the New Normal?

Physics Instructor Minimum Education to Teach Community College

Studying "Useful" vs. "Useless" Stuff in School

Digital oscilloscope for high school use

Motivating high school Physics students with Popcorn Physics

The changing physics curriculum in 1961

Suggestions for using Math Puzzles to stimulate my math students

The New California Math Framework: Another Step Backwards?

Rant about working in the tutoring lab: How should I deal with this?

Are Degree Apprenticeships a Good idea

Circuit calculation practice: voltage dividers, series, parallel

Feedback on video I created on (Galilean) Relative Velocity?

From a teacher’s perspective, what gaps do you see in STEM education?

ISO instructions for acceleration apparatus, or lesson plans

Data analysis by guessing, checking and fixing

Device Needed for Chaotic Systems Demonstration

Are there any really good resources on modelling with differential equations?

History of teaching on blackboard

A negative number to a fractional power -- Is it legit in High school?

Why some students are good at math and others lag behind

Alternatives to Mastering Physics in teaching E&M and Optics

Adjustable Hand Stroboscope, how to use?

High School Physics online video courses and MOOCs?

Teaching Differential Calculus as the Limit of Discrete Calculus

Why are Science Undergrad Programs Heavy on General Ed?

Style of teaching/learning mathematics: by proofs of theorems only?

Where (what) is an orbit? Where is Space?

How to study physics? (Question for students and instructors)

IBDP physics - new spec and SL/HL combined classes