Here’s yet another use of the Ig Nobel Prizes as a teaching tool:
Tag: teaching
University Course Proposal: “Calling Bullshit”
Professors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West from University of Washington have developed a new interdisciplinary course with the compelling title of Calling Bullshit. From publication bias to fake news, bullshit is everywhere. And it’s important to be able to navigate it, separate delusion from reality, and call out bullshit when we see it. In a post-truth world, […]
Radiation Near Non-Nuclear Sausalito
A high school teacher wrote this treatise: “Obtaining and Investigating Unconventional Sources of Radioactivity,” David R. Lapp [Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, CA], The Physics Teacher, vol. 48, February 2010, pp. 90-92. The author writes: “Sausalito, California, the city bordering the one I teach in, has a ‘Nuclear Free Zone’ sign (Fig. 1). I often […]
Why Students Hate Algebra
Dan Meyer (a different Dan Meyer than the Ig Nobel Prize-winning swordswallower) writes: (One Of Many Reasons) Why Students Hate Algebra [At a “professional development day” for all us math teachers, a math coach presented this as a good problem to give students:] A youth group with 26 members is going to the beach. There […]