My first week of Physics was an interesting one. It started when I met my new physics teacher, Mr. Abud, who has an unique and interesting teaching style. His core beliefs in teaching is not to focus on necessarily the answer, but the process of how you found it. He taught us this on our second day during the "magic cube lesson".
Each visible side of the cube was numbered from one-to-five, and he broke us up into groups to work collectively to figure out what number was on the bottom without looking at it. Most groups guessed it was six, since the other five sides were numbered one, two, three, four, and five. As it turned out, the sixth side didn't even exist, it was cut off before the class had started.
With everyone confused, he explained to us that the point of the lesson wasn't to find and answer, but to understand how to find it and work together to come up with one, solid, group consensus.
This is going to be a fascinating class.
-Steve
