I really love this classroom approach to the scientific method from David Cox.
More: coxmath.blogspot.com/2014/04/hypoth
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I like the gleeful “try to wreck it” mindset. Like pretending to be a dinosaur stomping on cardboard boxes or something.
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this same approach is also use for scientific research (with group being the entire research community).
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Easily the most important skill that most don't get out of HS math & sci classes. Leads to "evolution is only a theory."
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If everyone got 1 thing from HS, critical thinking, they'd know the surest way to Nobel Prize: Take evolution. Wreck it.
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And yet it hasn't happened. (But not for lack of trying.)