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Re: Syllabus for AP physics



Two comments on Hugh Haskell's eloquent plea:
1. Please don't use the teaching of math as an example of how physics should be
taught. US math teachers have not yet discovered that math was invented to enable
people to solve problems. I have elsewhere plugged the Calculus text that David
Tartakoff and I are writing to try to start a new direction in math teaching.
2. I have made some unsuccessful attempts to persuade MIT to provide some
feedback to high schools by identifying schools whose students enter MIT
well prepared (or some such). I'd be happy to coordinate further attempts along
this line. I've also been hoping to find time for a letter to my alumni
magazine, Technology Review. Let me hear from anyone else interested.
Regards,
Jack

"I scored the next great triumph for science myself,
to wit, how the milk gets into the cow. Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time. We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
that color."
Mark Twain, Extract from Eve's
Autobiography