3 papers
physics.ed-ph2024
Understanding Of Size And Scale And Order-Of-Magnitude Reasoning In Secondary Science: A Teaching Experiment With Worked Examples As Educational Scaffold
Cedric Loretan, Andreas Müller, Marine Delaval +2
Understanding size and scale (USS) and order-of-magnitude reasoning (OMR) are critical for scientific literacy. This study examines an educational approach to enhance these skills…
physics.pop-ph2023
Sea Level Rise by Climate Change. An order-of-magnitude approach to an environmental problem
Cedric Loretan, Andreas Müller
A figure, taken from a science literacy test, illustrates the distribution of water across various locations on Earth, represented as though the entire volume is contained in 100 b…
math.ST2020
On The Gaussian Approximation To Bayesian Posterior Distributions
Christoph Fuhrmann, Hanns Ludwig Harney, Klaus Harney +1
The present article derives the minimal number of observations needed to consider a Bayesian posterior distribution as Gaussian. Two examples are presented. Within one of them,…