Re: error analysis

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

If you can do it without getting overbearingly mathematical, give them
some sense of the importance of knowing the uncertainty in a
measurement, since this issue is at the heart of why we believe
something to be true...as in Arnold Aron's How do we know, why do we
believe.

cheers,

joe

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Tim O'Donnell wrote:

> Many of you are college professors.
> What types of error analysis would you like to see a high
> school teacher work with students. Other than percent
> differences and significant figures  which I do try to
> reinforce.
> Tim O'Donnell
> Instructor of Physics and Chemistry
> Celina High School
> 715 East Wayne Street
> Celina, Ohio 45822
> (419) 586-8300 Ext 1200 or 1201
> odonnt@celina.k12.oh.us
>
> "Chance only favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur