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In response to "Reagen - Do you think the results would have been different for a school that has more emphasis on science and engineering?" by Fuzzy

Possibly? Most of the people in the class knew the answer, but again it sort of wasn't the point

Posted by Reagen Sep 14 '12, 12:50

we're not really getting to students if they dont get this concept whatever they end up studying. And there's some big social implications if people don;t get that trees are carbon.

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If I knew to test the log and find that 50% of the mass comes from carbon, the answer would have come more easily. -- nm - Max Sep 14, 12:53 6
- another part of the video was with an elementary school student before and after a unit on plants - Reagen Sep 14, 12:56 4
  - but that makes it sound more like a physics problem than a chemistry problem. - Max Sep 14, 13:01 2
    - I'd agree in principle, but that's not the dichotomy presented - Reagen Sep 14, 13:04
    - IMO, a college student should know that living things are mostly made of carbon and water. -- nm - loosilu Sep 14, 13:02
  - totally agree with this, having taught biology to undergrads. - loosilu Sep 14, 12:58
- charcoal -- nm - zork Sep 14, 12:55

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