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Re: [Phys-l] Inquiry



This is Mazur's point in his recent lecture tour. The text's pictures are very distracting, etc.

bc thinks less is more., i.e. diagrams better than arty illustrators gone wild.


On 2009, Mar 01, , at 07:29, John Clement wrote:

I suspect that it does help some few students, but that the
texts are written in such a say that they can not help most students.
Incidentally non US books are much slimmer and more concise in countries
that show higher test scores. Less is more?