http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2008/08/throwing-out-the-textbook-part-ii/ Thoughts on teaching, politics, life in general Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/2008/08/throwing-out-the-textbook-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-6936 mongrelpuppy Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:07:14 +0000 http://www.adfinemfidelis.net/mongrel/?p=242#comment-6936 I do not know whether this is practical or desirable, but perhaps students could be given a list of astronomical observations in which each individual observation is ambiguous, and try to guess what combination of the phenomena they have learned about could have caused it? I do not know whether it would make sense to have the observations be qualitative or quantitative, and whether it would make sense for some of the provided data to be partially processed. I do not know whether this is practical or desirable, but perhaps students could be given a list of astronomical observations in which each individual observation is ambiguous, and try to guess what combination of the phenomena they have learned about could have caused it? I do not know whether it would make sense to have the observations be qualitative or quantitative, and whether it would make sense for some of the provided data to be partially processed.

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