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Re: intuition

A great question, Darwin.
I guess when you speak "from intuition" you are digging deeply down into
your spoken and unspoken assumptions and convictions about the behavior
of reality and/or you are expressing "how you would have done it if you
were God". Getting a student to express these ideas (and ruminate on
them) would provide an excellent beginning springboard (complete with
personalized motivation) for learning, An excellent pedagogical
approach, and a worthy topic of discussion for this forum!

Bob Sciamanda sciamanda@edinboro.edu
Dept of Physics trebor@velocity.net
Edinboro Univ of PA http://www.edinboro.edu/~sciamanda/home.html
Edinboro, PA (814)838-7185
-----Original Message-----
From: Darwin Z. Palima <dpalima@nip.upd.edu.ph>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 1:23 PM
Subject: intuition



hello,

I always encourage my students to develop physical intuition to help
them
solve problems. However, when I think about it, my definition of
intuition
is rather "intuitive". Could you help me have a more concrete definition
of intuition? Do you know of studies in building intuition?

Thanks,

-darwin





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