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Nov 29, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
One important topic which never gets sufficient attention in curriculum design (school & university)

Does a series vs parallel arrangement matter?
For eg: 10 chapters of Phy, chem, bio
is it better/worse to do them as 30 chapters, 1 after the other (Science) or tri-forked PCB
same for history & geography.
Better to split them & run H&G in parallel; or does it make sense to do them one after the other (assuming total workload same in each case)
Parallel = mental clutter?

Don't think of CBSE-ICSE Sci
'coz for PCB (9-10) latter has 2.5-3x the portion
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