http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ 2020-01-26T22:46:49-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-06-14T09:27:12-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/whitepapers:sequences:emsequence:pieces?rev=1308068832 Breaking a Big Problem into Manageable Pieces without Losing Sight of the Big Picture The Students' Mindframe In the best-case scenario, juniors in undergraduate physics will begin their junior year capable of successfully understanding and solving multi-step physics problems. Ideally, these students would have no significant holes in either their math or physics background and would already have the types of conceptual understanding that is measured by things such as concept inventories. Eve… text/html 2019-07-22T11:56:34-08:00 http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/whitepapers:sequences:emsequence:start?rev=1563821794 Ring Sequence: Chopping and Adding Students who are just beginning upper-division courses are being asked to simultaneously learn physics concepts, use mathematical processes in new ways, apply geometric reasoning, and use extended multi-step problem solving. Having students successfully deal with a problem such as finding the magnetic field in all space due to a spinning ring of charge is a significant challenge. If we are to avoid doing the thinking for them and creating a template they can …