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The Physics Teacher -- October 2009 -- Volume 47, Issue 7, pp. 418

Are Most People Too Dumb for Physics?

Nathaniel Lasry1, Noah Finkelstein2, and Eric Mazur3

1John Abbot College, Ste. Anne De Bellevue, Quebec
2University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
3Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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In last month's issue of TPT, Michael Sobel turns our attention to the increasing number and broader population of students taking physics courses and urges us to reconsider how to better cater to their needs. We applaud the author for focusing our attention on this important issue. However, we find his proposal for teaching physics to nonscience majors problematic.

© 2009 American Association of Physics Teachers

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physics education, educational courses, educational technology, socio-economic effects, problem solving, mathematics

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Online Sep 2009

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0031-921X (print)  

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3225498

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