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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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Student Course Review for my 12 y/o ESL science student in Japan
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High school physics problem sheets and tests
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Is the objectivity of math assessment testing a myth?
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Teaching the quadratic equation and the roots
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What to cover in a differential equations module?
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What is the Quantum Explorers 2023 game-based course by IBM?
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What are ways to learn/play with electricity at 6 years of age?
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Insights A Lesson In Teaching Physics: You Can’t Give It Away
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Thinking about quitting teaching
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Magdeburg hemispheres - safety precautions
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Anybody with experience with SciPod?
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How Are Scaffolding Questions Scored on Tests?
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Interactive lessons using PhET Sims and quizzes
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Who's tried Ungrading in STEM courses?
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What is the best way to introduce Laplace transforms in an Engineering Mathematics course?
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Introduction to pure mathematics
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How and what to teach on a second-year Engineering Mathematics?
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Using PASCO's FFT Ap for Investigation 16D
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Phyphox free cell phone app for sensors
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Using air core solenoids in a lab exercise
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Physicists in Industry - Action Needed
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Technical questions from grad students on their research
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Lessons with electron beam deflection tube and teltron tube
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Simple overestimate of slope uncertainty in regression
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Make a test based on online available exercises (looking for websites)
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Anybody hear of this Spintronics game/teaching-tool?
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How to lower one's expectation in teaching college algebra
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Ideas for group theory for high school math project
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NOAA resources for primary and secondary schools - ocean currents
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Where to Find mH Inductors for Banana Plugs in Basic Electronics Labs?
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Trachtenberg Speed System of Arithmetic
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Virtual Physics Labs - giving some resources and asking for some
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Useful Derivation for Labs Involving Rolling Balls Down an Inclined Plane
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When will universities disappear?
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Physicists Debate: Hardest Upper Division Subject to Teach
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Solve Sign Issues in Elec. Potential, Energy, Force, Field, Work
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AC Method for Factoring Trinomials
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Physics Labs: What Works and What Doesn't
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An issue to think about My new favorite Feynman interview.
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Education articles about Astronomy helping learning Math and Physics
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Is Feynman the "wise guy" in Zee's QFT book?
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Critique my Physics History Primer (Maxwell's Equations)
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So, I Accidently Made Friends With The Meanest Math Teacher....
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The Education of a Physicist (1965)
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Writing a Physics laboratory worksheet, Inspired by Inquiry
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Asking the student to use a tablet in online tutoring
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Approaches for teaching Modern Physics in Grade School and University
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What is the best way to introduce Laplace transforms for Engineers?
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Worth learning complex exponential trig derivations in precalc?
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Parents' frustration with distance learning -- "Common Core Math Methods"
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Help: Frequently asked AP Physics or PHY 101 questions bank?
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In search of a non-linear way to prepare students for this unique exam
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How to Build a Supercapacitor Dragster on a Budget?
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Video lecture demonstrations for an online class
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Is it good etiquette for a student to write down his|her own notes?
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Widgets for Visualizing Engineering
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W. P. Thurston, "How do mathematicians advance understanding of math?"
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High School Chemistry: Stoichiometry Readings?
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Are Introductory Algebra and Geometry the Only Foundational Mathematics Courses?
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Where to purchase laboratory samples?
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Geometric Construction (bisecting an angle with a compass and straightedge)
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Mainstream math and physics teaching/education journals
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YouTube Playlists for Solving Math and Physics Exercises?
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Is there a forum for NYC physics standards K-12?
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Is Variable-Based Physics Problem-Solving Beneficial or Detrimental?
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Physics 'challenge' type problems, High School (16-18) level
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Question re interpreting MarkScheme - Moments (Edexcel A-level)
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Are there places that still do "Core Math"?
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Advice for students who want to start research in Civil Engineering
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Media Literacy assignment: suggestions?
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Using a Problem Solving Technique for a simple word problem
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Teaching approximation techniques in basic courses
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In Canada, 80% is an A-, in the States, it's a B-. Does that mean....
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Does any classical mechanics textbook solve Kepler's Problem?
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Would Math professors ace PhD qualifying exams?
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AAPT Virtual 2020 Summer Meeting
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Who has already taught with Inspire Physics by Zitzewitz?
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Are good note takers usually good comprehenders?
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Making physics exciting for 5th graders
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Puzzled about the non-teaching of Monte Carlo method(s) for error analysis
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Looking for used physics lab/demo equipment
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Dedekind Cut, as stated by Richard Dedekind
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Buy Physics Classroom Demo Equipment: Quality & Cost Guide
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Physicist and Data Scientist in Ed Tech
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Teaching about electromagnetic radiation & struggling
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International students may need to leave US if their universities transition to online-only learning
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"Power reading" for learning physics?
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Selective learning via backwards traversal
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Attention High School Students and Teachers
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The coming revolution in physics education
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Finding a good descriptive model of the electric circuit (for 8th graders)
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Books on teaching and education
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Science-Blind: Opinions based on research vs personal
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Is Education Merely Imposing Professors' Beliefs on Learners?
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Make half and full adder without chips
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Substitute vs Full Time Teacher: Requirements and Licensing in Massachusetts
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What is your experience with estimating student workload?
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Modelling Rutherford Scattering - in the school lab
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Photon emission in electronic transitions
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