BREAKING THE SCIENCE BARRIER
How to Explore and Understand the Sciences
Chapter 3. Understanding Science
Understanding science involves more than merely learning its vocabulary or knowing certain facts. Especially in the physical sciences, scientific concepts begin to make sense only when students apply them.
One of the obstacles facing students of physics is learning to solve problems that seem new but that are actually, in important respects, similar to ones they have already learned to solve. But how does one recognize similar problems in physics? The best way is to learn to think algebraically instead of arithmetically. It is easier to catch an algebraic error than one in numerical calculation.
The brain is the least understood part of the body in humans and animals, because of both its physiology and its psychology. The brain and our environment are mutually interactive. How do we learn, from a biological point of view? One form of learning is training.
Understanding science involves not only laboratory work, but problem
solving, and making connections among concepts. The reality of
science in nature itself: how forces can be described, and how
they affect material objects; what matter is made of, and how
elements and their compounds react; the processes of life forms–their
use of energy, their ability to repair themselves, and their survival.
But at least as important in understanding science is another
reality...
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