לוח שנה משולב

One hardly needs to convince theWeizmann community how excitingmathematics and science can be. Yet alltoo often these subjects in school aredreary and mundane, taught as a set offacts that need to be memorized andprocedures that need to be mastered.This does little to help inspire the nextgeneration of mathematicians andscientists. Education researchers havebeen investigating ways to narrow thegap between scientific disciplines andtheir school counterparts for decades,yet this gap has its institutionalrationalities, making the gap frustratinglypersistent. In the talk, I will discuss whythis is a “wicked” problem and presentsome research on approaches to bringthe ethos of the academic disciplinesinto the school subjects.