Research points the way to help teach Maxwell—Boltzmann distributions
How to avoid faulty knowledge application by students when teaching distributions of states
Students’ struggle with multiple representations
How important is it for students to be able to move between chemical representations to grasp fundamental chemical concepts and phenomena?
Philosophical discussion promotes confidence in the classroom
How encouraging students to engage in philosophical dialogue can yield surprising results
Choose chemical representations carefully
How the combination of representations you use impacts your students’ learning
Be forceful with chemical bonding
Help your students understand chemical bonding with force-based models
Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces
How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding
