All Maths skills articles – Page 8
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Review
GCSE Science Skills Booster
Jane Essex reviews this skills booster which illustrates the role of HSW aspects
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Maths
Precedence
Paul Yates overcomes some common misconceptions and misunderstandings encountered when dealing with fractions
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The Mole
The Last Castle – can a water cannon fire a hook and chain?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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Feature
Symmetry of buckminsterfullerene
Both Euler's formula and Descartes' theorem can be used to show how buckyballs are made from closed cages of carbon pentagons and hexagons
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Maths
Trigonometry in chemistry
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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Maths
The exponential function
Tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists, by Paul Yates of Keele University
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Lesson plan
Accuracy and precision in practical investigations | 14-16 years
Help your students consolidate their understanding of the difference between accuracy and precision using this lesson plan with activities for 14–16 year olds.
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Lesson plan
Practising calculations in chemistry | 14-16 years
Help your students check or revise key calculations in chemistry, including relative formula mass, using this lesson plan with activities for 14–16 year olds.
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Feature
Investigating activation energies
A challenge for post-16 students to investigate the activation energies of the enzyme-catalysed and the inorganic-catalysed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide