Comments on: Uncertainty about Uncertainty in IB Science /blog_archive/2014/08/29/uncertainty-about-uncertainty-in-ib-science/ iteration, making, building, and coding in education Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.6 By: Evan Weinberg /blog_archive/2014/08/29/uncertainty-about-uncertainty-in-ib-science/#comment-306 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:32:13 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=1933#comment-306 In reply to Andy “SuperFly” Rundquist.

I haven’t done anything with Monte Carlo, no, but it seems like a good way to convince others (and me) of what the right approach might be.The fact I didn’t jump to a computational approach must mean I’m rusty – thanks for the suggestion!

]]> By: Andy "SuperFly" Rundquist /blog_archive/2014/08/29/uncertainty-about-uncertainty-in-ib-science/#comment-305 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:38:15 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=1933#comment-305 I love the line about it never being THE conversation. We take up a week’s worth of time in one of our early labs in our curriculum on it and then just hit it lightly again in the rest of the labs. In the Global Physics Department we had an interesting conversation about how to teach this, with the montecarlo approach getting the biggest support (that’s certainly what I push). What I’d like to do more of is experiments with much more repetitive data to really show true histograms. Do you do any of that?

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