How many of our Physics textbook questions begin with “a hockey puck glides across a frictionless ice surface…” or “one skater pushes back on the other…”? The questions are obviously designed to help Canadian students connect with everyday experiences they have had, but I wondered how some of these questions would translate into an actual investigation.
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