Journal of King Abdulaziz University-Islamic Economics

In the past 15 years, quantum mechanics has been included in most secondary school
\nstandards, including the Italian ones, but still in a rather marginal way. The conceptual complexity
\nof quantum mechanics is often a hurdle for students as well as for teachers; as a consequence, most
\nteachers and textbooks opt for narrative/historical approaches which, however, are not sufficient to
\ngrasp the deepest conceptual aspects of quantum physics, nor to deal with its technological
\napplications. Teaching quantum physics in secondary school is therefore a challenge that calls for a
\nclose collaboration between physics teachers and physics education researchers. The goal of…