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For science and math teachers, professors, instructors, tutors to discuss pedagogy, technology, teaching methods, lesson ideas, class management. Find advice on how to best prepare your students for success.
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Where Can Physics Teachers Find Valuable Teaching Resources?
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Insights An Accurate Hooke's Law Laboratory - Comments
  • Dr. Courtney
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Insights An Accurate Simple Harmonic Oscillator Laboratory - Comments
  • Dr. Courtney
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What Are the Top Math Resources for Teachers Online?
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Forbes Daily Newsletter: 10% decline in student CompSci enrollment
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Absolute vs. Relative Grading System: Pros, Cons, and Experiences
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Basic skills that kids are lacking
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Replacing "inertial" with "elastoid-inertial" in rotating systems
  • Simon F
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Does the Lorentz factor aid understanding of SR, or obscure it?
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How good is Brian Cox as a science communicator?
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Physics/math: how much knowledge does a high school teacher need?
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The importance of SATs?
  • sbrothy
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Insights Revisiting the Velocity-Time Function
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Trick questions to prevent guessing : surprising outcomes
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Man Made World Lab by Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project
  • Joseph M. Zias
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature
  • Greg Bernhardt
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Interval Kinematics
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At what age is special relativity taught?
  • Trysse
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Do old CRT and O-scopes degrade to emit harmful X Rays?
  • Albertgauss
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Is a Prof Failing 3/4 of the Senior Year Physics Class Normal? (Stat Phy)
  • Ascendant0
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Looking for lab experiments for a High School Physics class
  • PaulHSteacher
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Books vs Screens for Learning
  • gleem
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Questions about a parallel plate capacitor apparatus for lab experiments
  • DDesulgon
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How to teach errors and uncertainty in an undergraduate setting?
  • JMF2
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Some thoughts about self-education
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New Approach To Tackle College Cost
  • bhobba
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Shocked
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Distinguishing Mathematical Consistency from Physical Realizability
  • someonewholikesstuff
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Tungsten Cubes for STEM Education — Looking for Feedback
  • jamescharles
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Are Recent Students All Google Crazy?
  • mpresic3
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I want to help Physics education. What should I do?
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Help with leaf electroscope for school use please!
  • msr777
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Do you have a working copy of Testworks for Conceptual Physics?
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Where Can Teachers Access and Collect Classic PSSC Physics Films from the 1960s?
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How can we teach students the difference between sequences and series?
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Help with educational research!
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AAPT Conferences (2026,2027)
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AAPT 2025 Summer Meeting Washington DC (August 2025) - are you going?
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Rethinking Physics Education
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Demonstrating a pinhole camera with a screen projector
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Do Physics Riddles Help Students Understand Concepts Better?
  • jasonmethod
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How Can Interactive Diagrams Enhance Understanding of Wave Phenomena?
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Network analysis of student perceptions of an introductory lab
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Have you ever taught HS Physics with the Inquiry Based Approach?
  • robertphy
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I've started mentoring a small group of students about their science projects
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How to get my Math fully brushed up up to Highschool level?
  • mark2142
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What is the bare minimum necessary to "get" quantum mechanics?
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Practicing the Scientific Method in Middle School
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How does physics contribute to environment and sustainability?
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Question about something that the 1st year university student should know (how hard to study)
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Sources to study basic logic for precocious 10-year old?
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What are some less famous equations that you must know as an undergraduate physicist?
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Stephen Wolfram explains how ChatGPT works
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Extension resource for advanced high school / pre-university students
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Is the AAPT 2023 Physics Bowl Answer Key Incorrect?
  • kuruman
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How to explain AI to middle schoolers?
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Help with math terminology in tutorial
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Math terminology in my Taylor Series expansion?
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Incandescent bulbs in teaching
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How is Physics taught without Calculus?
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How to explain Bell's theorem to non-scientists
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Worksheets for Physics Experiments with Smartphones
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I want to start Tutoring Online -- Looking for Advice
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Are excuses for academic parties getting thinner or is it just me?
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AAPT 2024 Summer Meeting Boston, MA (July 2024) - are you going?
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RIP Edward "Joe" Redish (1942 - 2024), Physics Education
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Free Abstract Algebra curriculum in Urdu and Hindi
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Kumon Math and Similar Programs
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Is "College Algebra" really just high school "Algebra II"?
  • swampwiz
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UK School Physics Exam from 1967
  • Steve4Physics
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Physics education is 60+ years out of date
  • Will Flannery
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Plagiarism & ChatGPT: Is Cheating with AI the New Normal?
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Physics Instructor Minimum Education to Teach Community College
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Studying "Useful" vs. "Useless" Stuff in School
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Why are Physicists so informal with mathematics?
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Digital oscilloscope for high school use
  • rsk
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Motivating high school Physics students with Popcorn Physics
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The changing physics curriculum in 1961
  • Frabjous
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Suggestions for using Math Puzzles to stimulate my math students
  • robertphy
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The New California Math Framework: Another Step Backwards?
  • gleem
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Rant about working in the tutoring lab: How should I deal with this?
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Are Degree Apprenticeships a Good idea
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Insights When Pro Scientists Explain Using Pop Science
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Various Intuitions and Conceptualizations of Measurable Cardinals.
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Circuit calculation practice: voltage dividers, series, parallel
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Feedback on video I created on (Galilean) Relative Velocity?
  • PhDeezNutz
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From a teacher’s perspective, what gaps do you see in STEM education?
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ISO instructions for acceleration apparatus, or lesson plans
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Data analysis by guessing, checking and fixing
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Device Needed for Chaotic Systems Demonstration
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Are there any really good resources on modelling with differential equations?
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History of teaching on blackboard
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A negative number to a fractional power -- Is it legit in High school?
  • MichPod
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Why some students are good at math and others lag behind
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Alternatives to Mastering Physics in teaching E&M and Optics
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Adjustable Hand Stroboscope, how to use?
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High School Physics online video courses and MOOCs?
  • MichPod
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Does limit 1/x at zero equal infinity? How it is accepted in High School now?
  • MichPod
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Teaching Differential Calculus as the Limit of Discrete Calculus
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Why are Science Undergrad Programs Heavy on General Ed?
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Style of teaching/learning mathematics: by proofs of theorems only?
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Where (what) is an orbit? Where is Space?
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How to study physics? (Question for students and instructors)
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IBDP physics - new spec and SL/HL combined classes
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