{"id":793,"date":"2017-01-05T12:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=793"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:22:48","slug":"common-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/05\/common-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this recently and thought that it was very apt for what we are exploring in the first lesson. It was tagged as &#8220;me in every math lesson&#8221; which corresponds to how I felt in high school math, and how many of my middle school students feel when we start a new concept in math or science.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"steel feathers - Limmy&#039;s Show\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ypaXNVPkSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was interesting that even when shown proof that they are the same, he still did not get it. It is difficult to dislodge preconceived notions even in the face of proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this recently and thought that it was very apt for what we are exploring in the first lesson. It was tagged as &#8220;me in every math lesson&#8221; which corresponds to how I felt in high school math, and how many of my middle school students feel when we start a new concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-conceptual-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}