2 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…