Teaching Introductory Physics

Rating:
Summary: Essential
Review: If you are a physics teacher in high school or freshman college or university, you should own this book. It allowed me to step in and address student difficulties in my first year teaching physics after 10 year of applied-physics research. Who could imagine that students would have difficulty with "simple" concepts such as torque, kinematic time concepts, and a realistic view of static electricity? Arnold B. Arons would, and you should! I worked through freshman college geology and AP statistics, grappling painfully with "obvious (sorry for the over-use of quotations, but I feel strongly about this)" topics that confused my students, but I feel that I slid smoothly into introductory physics because of Arons's insights, literature analyses, and clarifications. My students may not always appreciate labs and classworks that require unexpected thought and paradigm-shifts from Aristotelian thinking to rigorous classical-physics frameworks, but ultimately they benefit from the challenges that Arons asks us to accept and acknowledge. This book is Essential, I can't stress this strongly enough!

Rating:
Summary: Essential
Review: This book is the best book I have seen so far about teaching physics. One can find the preconceptions of students, anticipated difficulties in teaching, recommended strategies for each topic, very well structured homework and test questions... A teacher (or an educated learning facilitator in a physics learning environment) can find several ideas and methods to create a fruitfull, pleasent, efficient learning experiences for students. The only thing that I did not like in the book is the non-existence of solutions to questions. It deserves 5-star. Higly recommended

Rating:
Summary: Very useful. Excellent book.
Review: This book is the best book I have seen so far about teaching physics. One can find the preconceptions of students, anticipated difficulties in teaching, recommended strategies for each topic, very well structured homework and test questions... A teacher (or an educated learning facilitator in a physics learning environment) can find several ideas and methods to create a fruitfull, pleasent, efficient learning experiences for students. The only thing that I did not like in the book is the non-existence of solutions to questions. It deserves 5-star. Higly recommended