"We submit that the primary objective of introductory physics instruction should be to facilitate a transformation in the student's mode of thinking from his initial common sense knowledge state to the final Newtonian knowledge state of a physicist. One should hardly expect instruction which fails to take initial common sense knowledge into account to be more effective than a method for integrating differential equations which ignores initial conditions." I. Halloun and D. Hestenes, "The initial knowledge state of physics students,"Am. J. Phys. 53, 1043 (1985).
Example #3:
It has been suggested that "the primary objective of physics instruction should be to guide a transformation in the student's mode of thinking from his initial common sense knowledge state to the final Newtonian knowledge state of a physicist" (Halloun and Hestenes 1985). |