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Peer reviewedWhite, Arthur L.; Berlin, Donna F. – School Science and Mathematics, 1989
Provided is a unit which relates the fulcrum of a lever system and the mean of a distribution of scores. The objective, rationale, two student laboratories, and an evaluation system are outlined. Content background on statistics is offered. (MVL)
Descriptors: College Science, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedDerby, Stanley K. – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
This experiment designed for beginning physics students, is related to postal regulations restricting the size of envelopes. A graph is constructed that allows for testing the mailability of envelopes. (MP)
Descriptors: Graphs, Higher Education, Instruction, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedLunetta, Vincent N.; Tamir, Pinchas – School Science and Mathematics, 1981
This report reviews some goals for laboratory activities in contemporary science teaching, discusses an investigation that analyzed and compared laboratory activities from two major physics guides, and discusses the implications of the goals and analysis for physics teaching. Six major deficiencies in the two laboratory handbooks are identified.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Guides, Physics
Peer reviewedRoth, Wolff-Michael – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Provides an example of the integration of science and mathematics learning of one high school physics student in a constructivist classroom. Discusses the student's integration of mathematical and nonmathematical representations and of different mathematical representations in a nonuniform acceleration experiment. Describes a model for integrating…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning), Graphs, Integrated Activities
