Qualitative versus quantitative reasoning: Are we teaching the right thing?
Publication information:
E. Mazur. 2005. “Qualitative versus Quantitative Reasoning: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?”. In Motivating Science: Science Communication from a Philosophical, Educational and Cultural Perspective, edited by Nigel Sanitt, Pp. 139–141. The Panteneto Press
Abstract
This paper is a reprinting of an article that first appeared in Optics and Photonics News in 1992. The article deals with the eye-opening experience that made me completely change my approach to teaching.