Re: [Phys-l] STUDY SUGGESTS NO CHILD LAW MAY BE DUMBING DOWNSTUDENTS

["Dan Crowe" <Dan.Crowe@Loudoun.K12.VA.US>]

I think that both Hugh and Rick missed Paul's intent that the topics in question (metric units, measurement, conversions, and trig) not be taught separately in an out-of-context unit at the beginning of the course, but that they should be taught in the context of other physics units.  Paul did not advocate that these topics should not be taught at all.

Daniel Crowe
Loudoun County Public Schools
Academy of Science
dan.crowe@loudoun.k12.va.us
> > > "Rick Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu> 11/04/08 1:25 PM >>>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Haskell" <hhaskell@mindspring.com>


> At 10:46  -0600 11/4/08, Paul Lulai wrote:
> > Regarding re-teaching:  In my opinion... a big problem a lot of teachers
> > are a slave to the textbook.  For some reason each science textbook
> > seems to start with the blasted metric system.  For crying out loud,
> > skip it.  Measurement, skip it.  Conversions, skip it.  Trig, skip it.
> > Teach them in the course (my opinion).
I'll go farther than Hugh--you can't (or shouldn't) skip any of this--but 
you can be extremely light on the Trig.