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Like Learning to Ride a Bike

Posted on Friday, May 16, 2003

The always-provocative Philip Greenspun has an interesting idea on how to motivate kids to pay attention in their math and science classes: instead of teaching these subjects in the abstract, make them concrete by having students use their last four years of school to build a functioning bicycle.

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