Readit NewsIs there any reason why this could not work for mathematics too ?
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1. Algebra-based "just apply the formula" d=vt, y=v_0*t+gt^2/2.
2. Calc I, where the previous formulas now made complete sense and served as mnemonics.
3. Calc-based stats, calc-based physics.
I'd recommend this to anyone.
Referring to an algebra-based physics class?
Now also move the notion "include the units and they must work out" back to intro algebra classes, and kids could have a superpower in solving word problems.
But really, universities should grow a spine and reject students who do not meet their supposed 'high bar'.
I do find it really strange for someone to ace "honors physics" to then fail qualifications for intro calculus. Seems that credit is highly suspect.
Famously, there can be "plug in the numbers" physics. Zero conceptual understanding required, And then all you need to know about fractions is to "divide" that entry on the calculator.
For example, in a PSSC high-school physics course, I remember adding four or five terms when analyzing a calorimetry experiment, with no awareness of adding compatible (same units) energy-related terms.
In some ways a high-school student might be better served in a conceptual physics course, if competently taught.
(Cough, someone still has to store the information.)
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Same thing chatgpt (trapped in the philosopher's Chinese room) is asking itself millions of times a day.
My understanding is that FERPA is similar to HIPAA, except for college scores and enrollment information instead of medical records.
But there’s a rule in FERPA where you explicitly can’t leave a stack of exams and let students pick them, because it exposes students to others’ scores. Another rule is that you can’t associate a students exam with their student ID even if it’s a sequence of numbers, because the id is public information, but you wouldn’t expect someone to remember someone else’s id.
(I specifically remember some professors not following the exam rule, probably because they didn’t know or perhaps it didn’t exist yet. I don’t know if anything happened to them but I suspect if anything, they were simply asked to not do that in the future.)
As a comparison, at my Uni in the 1970s individual grades were posted along with corresponding social security numbers.
America, where no perverse incentive can be allowed to be left unexploited :(