All Maths skills articles – Page 5
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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
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NewsWhich data representations help students learn?
Avoid cognitive overload with better representations of concepts
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ResourceProblem solving tutor
Use this online interactive tutorial to teach three different methods for solving problems in quantitative chemistry. Video: How to use the problem solving tutor
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ReviewCalculations in chemistry: an introduction
Packed with questions and problems for undergraduate students
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NewsRating rate laws
How to help students gain a deeper understanding of mathematical model-building
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MathsSummation and the sigma notation
Paul Yates applies this handy shorthand to chemistry calculations in mass and enthalpy