Exploring the Scientific Method: Cases and Questions (Gimbel - paperback)

Editor: Steven Gimbel

ISBN: 9780226294834

Binding: paperback

Section: Science/Nature

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the “scientific method” — a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into the office of a theoretical physicist or the laboratory of a biochemist and ask “Which step are you on?” and you will likely receive a blank stare. This is not how science works. But science does work, and here award-winning teacher and scholar Steven Gimbel provides students the tools to answer for themselves this question: What actually is the scientific method?