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Pinochet, Jorge; Cortada, Walter Bussenius – Physics Education, 2022
Teaching the noncommutativity of the product of matrices to high school or college level students is a difficult task when approached from a purely formal perspective. The aim of this paper is to present a simple experimental activity for teaching the noncommutativity of the matrix product, based on the Jones calculus, a mathematical formalism for…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, College Science, High Schools
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Cullinane, Alison; Hillier, Judith; Childs, Ann; Erduran, Sibel – Research in Science Education, 2023
This article utilizes a framework for classifying different scientific methods suggested by a philosopher of science (Brandon "Synthese," 99, 59-73, 1994) called Brandon's Matrix. It presents findings from teachers who took part in a funded project in England that looked at the nature of scientific methods in science investigations.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Matrices, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Maurício Pietrocola; Samuel Schnorr; Ernani Rodrigues – Research in Science Education, 2025
Contemporary science education themes are marked by the inevitable uncertainty of consequences emerging from human actions. They encompass disasters, pandemics and other events that have been marking our present times. Understanding new risks as the ones resulting from human action, even when proposing a solution for an issue, is one of the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Risk, Futures (of Society), Ambiguity (Context)