http://www.netvouz.com/tag/uncertainty?feed=rss Bookmarks tagged with "uncertainty" on Netvouz http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/mys.box.html Students manipulate sealed "mystery" boxes and attempt to determine the inner structure of the boxes which contain a moving ball and a fixed barrier or two. The nature and sources of uncertainty inherent in the process of problem-solving are experienced. The uncertainty of the conclusions is reduced by student collaboration. PRINCIPAL CONCEPT Scientific knowledge is fundamentally uncertain. pdboyer Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:58:38 GMT http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/falsasum.html Little deceptive problem stories are presented to the class, and students are challenged to solve each problem by asking only yes/no questions. The key is for students to recognize what the False Assumption is that makes the solution tricky, and that many common problems are difficult to solve because we tend to assume a particular paradigm. Things are not always what they seem! Science is a way to work around or through those false assumptions. PRINCIPAL CONCEPT Scientific knowledge is contingent and subject to modification. ASSOCIATED CONCEPTS Science contains an element of uncertainty. ASSESSABLE OBJECTIVES Students will.... 1. related insights from this activity to their personal lives. 2. be unable to solve thought problems because of false a pdboyer Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:51:12 GMT http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08c.htm Implications of Uncertainty Science Theory Paradigms Eddie Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:54:14 GMT http://plus.maths.org/issue50/risk/index.html 2845 ways of spinning risk misc chr Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:05:05 GMT