Comments on: The Three Acts Of A (Lousy) Mathematical Story /2011/the-three-acts-of-a-lousy-mathematical-story/ less helpful Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Resources for Blended Learning Workshop | Shifting Phases /2011/the-three-acts-of-a-lousy-mathematical-story/#comment-937640 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:25:23 +0000 /?p=10387#comment-937640 […] hungry, then let them ask for the instructions and info.  Here’s an example where he takes a weak textbook problem and shows you how to make it shine.  He writes about math but I suspect this is widely […]

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]]> By: James Key /2011/the-three-acts-of-a-lousy-mathematical-story/#comment-442474 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:02:08 +0000 /?p=10387#comment-442474 @Dan: “To be clear, I’m not saying you can just play act one and two and your students will trot merrily to an answer in act three, deriving that thorny equation for projectile motion all on their own while stopping periodically to smell the constructivism flowers.”

Dude, that is what happens in my class every day! ;-)

]]> By: Johanna /2011/the-three-acts-of-a-lousy-mathematical-story/#comment-441750 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:03:51 +0000 /?p=10387#comment-441750 Hey Ben,
I was thinking of doing this with my class and coming across some of the same difficulties. I timed it, and it actually falls for 6 seconds. But that’s a problem because you’d end up with 576 feet. Now I’m searching everywhere for the terminal velocity of a glowstick to figure out if that is the problem, or what he is counting.

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