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My high school physics teacher did #1. The math was pretty simple if you knew the concept and the first week he showed us stuff like finding a square root on pa
by icefox 17y ago
My high school physics teacher did #1. The math was pretty simple if you knew the concept and the first week he showed us stuff like finding a square root on paper.
- rbanffy 17y ago"finding a square root on paper." That's painful!
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoActually it's pretty easy. It also follows from the basics of long division, which underpins how CRC algorithms work.
- dhimes 17y agoI did exactly the same thing when teaching physics in college for many years. I made the numbers easy, but made people memorize formulas. No calculators or "cheat sheets" allowed, but you could leave an answer as pi/sqrt(2). I would tell the students: "The numbers should come out easy. If you get something weird, then one of us made a mistake!" This simple change made a huge improvement in comprehension in the class. It wasn't about "number jamming" any more, but about learning.