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Austin Gleeson
      University of Texas at Austin

Discovery Methods in Physics at Texas

It is well known in the mathematics community that R. L. Moore was the developer of an instructional method based on what are now called discovery methods.  A later but also significant was the first example of a similar teaching method developed for the physical sciences by a University of Texas physics colleague, Professor R. N. Little. 

In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in using these methods for teaching science generally and physics in particular.  In this talk I will review some of the history of teaching discovery physics at Texas but most of the emphasis will be on the course sequence that was developed by Bob Little and which is still taught at the University of Texas.