(School of Physical Education,Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing 210046,China) Abstract: Related principles of the theory of chaos as a fundamental theory of science, such as butterfly effect, in-trinsic randomness and singular attractor, have influence on various areas. The authors compared traditional physical education teaching design with physical education teaching design guided by the theory of chaos in terms of linear and nonlinear, closed and open, as well as controllable and uncontrollable, and derived such inspirations as that physical education teaching design in the new period should value meta cognition, focus on people-orientated edu-cation, care about individual differences, and pay attention to the cultivation of student’s creative thinking. Key words: theory of chaos;physical education teaching;teaching design |