STEM Educators and Teaching Forum

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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IBDP physics - new spec and SL/HL combined classes

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Finding STEM and Makerspace facilities for underrepresented students

  • CRiley
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Student Course Review for my 12 y/o ESL science student in Japan

  • cloa513
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High school physics problem sheets and tests

  • Oldteacher
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Is the objectivity of math assessment testing a myth?

  • swampwiz
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Teaching the quadratic equation and the roots

  • Astronuc
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What to cover in a differential equations module?

  • matqkks
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What is the Quantum Explorers 2023 game-based course by IBM?

  • Edgardo
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What are ways to learn/play with electricity at 6 years of age?

  • fluidistic
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Insights A Lesson In Teaching Physics: You Can’t Give It Away

  • kuruman
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Thinking about quitting teaching

  • haushofer
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Magdeburg hemispheres - safety precautions

  • DDesulgon
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Anybody with experience with SciPod?

  • phyzguy
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How Are Scaffolding Questions Scored on Tests?

  • hutchphd
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Interactive lessons using PhET Sims and quizzes

  • robertphy
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Who's tried Ungrading in STEM courses?

  • vela
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Introduction to pure mathematics

  • matqkks
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How and what to teach on a second-year Engineering Mathematics?

  • matqkks
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Using PASCO's FFT Ap for Investigation 16D

  • FortranMan
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Phyphox free cell phone app for sensors

  • vela
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Lab exercise ideas for 700-turn air core solenoids with 3 amp supply

  • nmsurobert
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Physicists in Industry - Action Needed

  • gleem
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Technical questions from grad students on their research

  • Hyperfine
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Lessons with electron beam deflection tube and teltron tube

  • DDesulgon
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Simple overestimate of slope uncertainty in regression

  • Bjarke Nicolaisen
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Finding websites with ready-made math and physics exercises for tests

  • robertphy
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Anybody hear of this Spintronics game/teaching-tool?

  • swampwiz
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How to lower one's expectation in teaching college algebra

  • cbarker1
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Ideas for group theory for high school math project

  • malawi_glenn
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NOAA resources for primary and secondary schools - ocean currents

  • jim mcnamara
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Where to Find mH Inductors for Banana Plugs in Basic Electronics Labs?

  • malawi_glenn
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Trachtenberg Speed System of Arithmetic

  • Ackbach
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Virtual Physics Labs - giving some resources and asking for some

  • tempneff
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When will universities disappear?

  • Corpuscule
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What is the hardest upper division physics subject to teach?

  • tiyusufaly
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Solve Sign Issues in Elec. Potential, Energy, Force, Field, Work

  • Ackbach
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AC Method for Factoring Trinomials

  • Ackbach
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Physics Labs: What Works and What Doesn't

  • Ackbach
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An issue to think about My new favorite Feynman interview.

  • fresh_42
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How observational astronomy helps teach math and physics

  • pabloweigandt
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Is Feynman the "wise guy" in Zee's QFT book?

  • apostolosdt
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Critique my Physics History Primer (Maxwell's Equations)

  • kq6up
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The Education of a Physicist (1965)

  • Frabjous
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Writing a Physics laboratory worksheet, Inspired by Inquiry

  • robertphy
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Asking the student to use a tablet in online tutoring

  • pop_ianosd
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Approaches for teaching Modern Physics in Grade School and University

  • gleem
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What is the best way to introduce Laplace transforms for Engineers?

  • matqkks
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Worth learning complex exponential trig derivations in precalc?

  • BWV
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Parents' frustration with distance learning -- "Common Core Math Methods"

  • berkeman
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How to Build a Supercapacitor Dragster on a Budget?

  • Fred404
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Video lecture demonstrations for an online class

  • physicsworks
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Is it good etiquette for a student to write down his|her own notes?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Widgets for Visualizing Engineering

  • person123
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W. P. Thurston, "How do mathematicians advance understanding of math?"

  • Astronuc
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High School Chemistry: Stoichiometry Readings?

  • mishima
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Are Introductory Algebra and Geometry the Only Foundational Mathematics Courses?

  • symbolipoint
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Where to purchase laboratory samples?

  • mfig
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Geometric Construction (bisecting an angle with a compass and straightedge)

  • mpresic3
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Mainstream math and physics teaching/education journals

  • feynman1
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YouTube playlists for solving undergraduate math and physics exercises

  • hagopbul
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Is there a forum for NYC physics standards K-12?

  • Tutor 9640
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Is Variable-Based Physics Problem-Solving Beneficial or Detrimental?

  • symbolipoint
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Physics 'challenge' type problems, High School (16-18) level

  • rsk
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Question re interpreting MarkScheme - Moments (Edexcel A-level)

  • rsk
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Are there places that still do "Core Math"?

  • LightningInAJar
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Advice for students who want to start research in Civil Engineering

  • arestes
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Media literacy assignment for intro physics

  • Andy Resnick
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Using a Problem Solving Technique for a simple word problem

  • cbarker1
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Teaching approximation techniques in basic courses

  • andresB
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Why do Canadian and American grading scales differ?

  • Eric Recchia
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Does any classical mechanics textbook solve Kepler's Problem?

  • Will Flannery
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Would Math professors ace PhD qualifying exams?

  • Gjmdp
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AAPT Virtual 2020 Summer Meeting

  • robphy
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Who has already taught with Inspire Physics by Zitzewitz?

  • LuisFelipe
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Are good note takers usually good comprehenders?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Making physics exciting for 5th graders

  • BillKet
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Puzzled about the non-teaching of Monte Carlo method(s) for error analysis

  • fluidistic
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Looking for used physics lab/demo equipment

  • Tom Hammer
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Dedekind Cut, as stated by Richard Dedekind

  • MidgetDwarf
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Finding quality physics demo equipment for classroom use

  • whoohm
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Physicist and Data Scientist in Ed Tech

  • ClimberT8
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Teaching electromagnetic radiation from accelerating charges in grade 12

  • flintstones
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"Power reading" for learning physics?

  • John Mcrain
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Selective learning via backwards traversal

  • Jarvis323
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Attention High School Students and Teachers

  • gleem
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The coming revolution in physics education

  • Will Flannery
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Finding a good descriptive model of the electric circuit (for 8th graders)

  • abcd112358
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Books on teaching and education

  • trees and plants
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Teaching students to distinguish research from opinion

  • .Scott
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Is Education Merely Imposing Professors' Beliefs on Learners?

  • jk22
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Make half and full adder without chips

  • UppercaseQ
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What is your experience with estimating student workload?

  • bigfooted
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Modelling Rutherford Scattering - in the school lab

  • Grooze
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