Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.

The San Fransisco Chronicle reports that a Quaker math teacher was fired for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance. This is not necessarily physics news, but having gone to Guilford College and having a background in the Society of Friends, this is an interesting story to me. Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student [...]

Can you imagine a world without tangents? According to Dr. Norman Wildberger the traditional way we “do” trigonometry is outdated. He’s on a mission to replace the conventional trigonometric toolkit that consists of sines and cosines. In this article, Dr. Wildberger explains: Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry because the framework is wrong [...]