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These space-age children are taking an experimental science curriculum drawn up by University of California Physicist Robert Karplus, 32, whose specialty is not elementary school teaching but elementary particles. (Sample Karplus research paper: "Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory-The Vertex Function.") A Vienna-born infant prodigy who could multiply four-digit numbers in his head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that...
Intuitive Perception. Backed by the Berkeley public schools, the University of California's education department and a $40,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Karplus set out to "isolate a small number of ideas that underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional...
Other members of the Jaffee Club were John B. Hook, William N. Jenkins, Curtis M. Karplus, Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Richard M. Sandler, and L. John Wood. Again...
Also Martin Karplus of Newton and Adams House; Robert Kenyon Nesbet of Lakewood, Ohio and Kirkland House; Anthony Gervin Oettinger of New York and Lowell House; and Ariel Zemach of New York and Kirkland House...
...Robert Karplus-Harriet Corbin (Jackson...