All Maths skills articles – Page 5
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Job profileAssociate researcher, pharmaceuticals
Discover how you can change people’s lives as a chemist supervising the making of active ingredients in medicines
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IdeasImprove numeracy for all
Help your students improve their numeracy skills with these simple learning aids
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CPDMeasuring energy changes
Get practical with students and arm them with the skills and knowledge they need
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FeatureTaking the fear out of time-of-flight calculations
Get the teaching of TOF-MS right and student outcomes will really soar
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IdeasWorking with units and prefixes
How to help students use units and prefixes correctly and easily convert between them
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ResourceIntroductory maths for higher education
Learn about the fundamental principles behind mathematical concepts important for higher education chemistry courses including worked examples of using logarithms, indices and the chain rule.
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ResourceQuantitative chemistry starters | 16–18
Put your students’ quantitative chemistry skills to the test with Starter for ten activities around topics such as the mole, the ideal gas equation, percentage yield and atom economy.
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ResourceBasic practical competencies starters | 16–18
These Starters for ten cover basic practical skills such as laboratory equipment, recording results and drawing scatter graphs.
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ResourceBasic mathematical competencies starters | 16–18
Use these Starters for ten to gauge your student’s grasp of basic mathematical competencies including rearranging equations, significant figures and unit conversions.
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IdeasThey’ll learn more with bar models
Simplify the maths in science with this pictorial approach – and improve understanding
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AnalysisHow preterm birth can affect learning
Children born prematurely may need different types of support when developing key skills in maths and science
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ResourceInteractive lab primer
Cover core safety information, skills and apparatus with this visual aid to common laboratory techniques
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ResourceAnecdotes: Gimli Glider
The story of the Air Canada plane that ran out of fuel in mid-air and had to land as a glider, due to a units mix-up when calculating the fuel needed for the journey.
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IdeasHelp students understand accuracy and error
Embed use of the right key terms in practical work from an early age