Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[Chuck Britton <britton@ODIE.NCSSM.EDU>]

I suspect that a fair amount of this follows from the Bio Sci folks
who use statistics to test the 'null hypothesis'. (am I phrasing this
right?)


At 5:45 PM -0700 9/23/99, David J. Hamilton wrote:
> Let's not over-generalize.  There's almost nothing that is "always taught
> in high school."  However, I agree that the norm is to teach "rules" of
> scientific inquiry which are way too rigid. Interestingly, in my
> professional development activities with science teachers, I often find
> middle school teachers adhering more to the requirement of having a
> hypothesis (which usually means a prediction).

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