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Solar Sprint

Journal Article

Solar Sprint

In the “Solar Sprint” activity, students design, test, and race a solar-powered car built with Legos. The use of ratios is incorporated to simulat...

Every Day Science Calendar—October 2007

Journal Article

Every Day Science Calendar—October 2007

This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...

Editor’s Note: Science and Math Go Together Like…

Journal Article

Editor’s Note: Science and Math Go Together Like…

The connections of mathematics and science are both basic and complex. As the articles in this month’s issue attest, we can deepen student understan...

Perspectives: Science and Mathematics—A Natural Connection

Journal Article

Perspectives: Science and Mathematics—A Natural Connection

Nowhere in our daily lives do we separate tasks into specific subjects before we take action. Yet in schools we continue to teach the various discipli...

Line Graph Learning

Journal Article

Line Graph Learning

In this article, the learning progress of one fifth-grade student is examined with regard to the development of her graph interpretation skills as she...

Science 101: When drawing graphs from collected data, why don’t you just “connect the dots?”

Journal Article

Science 101: When drawing graphs from collected data, why don’t you just “connect the dots?”

Using error bars on graphs is a good way to help students see that, within the inherent uncertainty of the measurements due to the instruments used ...

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