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Re: Reading Science/Math Text



In his Chemed-L <http://mailer.uwf.edu/archives/chemed-l.html> post
"Reading Science Texts," high-school chemistry teacher John Mackin
(2004) wrote :
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As I review this almost-completed year, I recognize that some of my
students came to chemistry class with limited abilities to learn
from a science textbook. This seems to be a more prevalent problem
than in previous years. Several questions come to mind.



2. Are there any excellent resources available to teach students how
to extract information from science texts?


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Look at the intro and first two chapters of the calculus text in
progress at my homepage: http://www.hep.anl.gov/jlu/index.html. The text
is designed to force the student to read. This comes about from two
devices:
1. A workbook style, so that the student cannot progress without
reading and working exercises.
2. Answers to exercises are found in the text after the
exercises; no answers in the back of the book.
Regards,
Jack

--
"Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this."
General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley