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The Paradigms in Physics team is embarking on a new project to put detailed information about the various activities that we have developed on the web to encourage adoption by faculty at other institutions. We have already described our program as a whole in two papers (Paradigms in Physics: A New Upper-Division Curriculum, American Journal of Physics 69, 978-990 (2001)., The Oregon State University Paradigms Project: Re-envisioning the Upper Level, Physics Today 56, 53-58 (2003). and a general website. But this is not enough information for people to be able to do what we do. We are currently experimenting with a wiki format so that users will be able to offer detailed feedback. We expect this site to be updated on a nearly daily basis. Check back often!

You may enter this website at five different levels: individual activities arranged by content, individual activities arranged by pedagogical strategy, sequences of activities that we have found work well together to achieve particular pedagogical goals, descriptions of our whole courses, and descriptions of things we have learned about how students learn.

Reading mathematics in this Wiki


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under DUE Grant Nos. 9653250, 0088901, 0231032, 0231194, 0618877. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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