Top-down Teaching in Noncalculus-Based Introductory Physics Classes.

Dudley, J. M.; Bold, G. E. J.

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ERIC Number: EJ522175

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Publication Date: 1996

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Top-down Teaching in Noncalculus-Based Introductory Physics Classes.

Dudley, J. M.; Bold, G. E. J.

American Journal of Physics, v64 n4 p418-21 Apr 1996

Discusses a method for teaching introductory physics courses that reverses the traditional sequence of instruction and is based on beginning all lecture treatments with discussions of complex, yet familiar phenomena and working backward to discussions of the simple physical laws underlying them. (Author/MKR)

Descriptors: College Science, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Nonmajors, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Journal availability: American Assn. of Physics Teachers, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3845.