Tonight we talked with Mike Schatz about projects to involve more people doing science. He shared a lot of links to projects from around the world and we discussed how to get our students involved.

Here’s the link to the recording.

Note: next week we’re going to talk about how to get more Modern Physics topics into the HS curriculum. Come with ideas, questions, anecdotes, jokes, and reasons you think Mathematica is better than python (wait, you can skip that last one if you want).

Tonight Chase talked to use about site-swap juggling and how the math and physics principles involved can work well as a classroom activity about both math creativity and trajectory dynamics.

Here’s the recording link.

Below are links to two documents Chase mentioned during the session.

The_Physics_of_Juggling.doc
Download this file

Siteswap_workshop_handout.docx
Download this file

Here’s the audio of the week we had with Derek.

GPDMuller.mp3
Listen on Posterous

Tonight we discussed error propagation (errors, uncertainties, sigmas, etc). We talked about the pros and cons of teaching sig figs and discussed the 3-crank approach and the monte carlo approach.

The corkboard was very helpful: http://corkboard.me/qeM6Ne6tTG

Here’s the recording link.

Please use this corkboard link to help brainstorm:

http://corkboard.me/qeM6Ne6tTG

Hi everyone,

We’ll be tackling how to teach error propagation this Wednesday. Please think a little about how you do it (Montecarlo (my method), calculus, sig figs, other?) so we can have a lively conversation.

-Andy

Last night we truly went global. Derek joined us from Australia and talked with us about addressing misconceptions using video. We talked about JayWalking, scaring little kids (just kidding, really just the legal issues of kids in videos), production value, misconceptions, and more!

Here’s the link.

Next week we’re going to talk about various ways to teach error propagation. Should be a blast, please join us! -Andy