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by whatshisface 2193 days ago
They should be testing it on something that involves more remembering and less thinking, like microbiology. Physics is the absolute worst subject to test any new book-writing method in, because the book practically doesn't matter; it's all in what happens inside the student's head as they do the exercises. The fact that the Moore method has half a chance of working for topology students shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that for highly logic-based fields like physics and math that the book matters so little that the absence of any book or lecture at all will still result in the material being taught!