Guesstimation

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  A delicious booklet that any science teacher should read. Too often students are perfect (when they are...) at solving complex yet standard problems, and get lost when they have to make estimates. Instead, the art of estimating physical quantities should always preceed detailed computations, as it a ... (continue)

  A delicious booklet that any science teacher should read. Too often students are perfect (when they are...) at solving complex yet standard problems, and get lost when they have to make estimates. Instead, the art of estimating physical quantities should always preceed detailed computations, as it allows for improper models to be discarded right away. In this sense, although probably nobody will ever have to count the number of golf balls needed to fill the Colosseum, the book can act as a good syllabus in science education.

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• English Books
• Paperback 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0691129495
• ISBN-13: 9780691129495
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Pub date: Apr 01, 2008
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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