All Problem solving articles
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Why the periodic table is a student’s best friend
How to encourage your pupils to use it as a resource
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Five ways to promote independent learning
How to help students take responsibility for their own learning
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Chemistry Olympiad past papers
Past papers from the Chemistry Olympiad , from 2003 to 2019, inclusive. Files include test papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports, organised by year. You can view the Olympiad support booklet or access video question walkthroughs from the Olympiad Bites series in the Related Articles section below.
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Problem 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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Scaffolding explanations
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Designing an organic synthesis
View a summary of how to approach the synthesis of an organic compound, focussing on the construction of key bonds. Follow an example multistep synthesis using standard organic transformations, answering questions along the way. This page is suitable for students beginning organic chemistry. Designing an organic synthesis This ...
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SME videos: Dr. Matthew Tozer
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work for a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). In these videos Matthew Tozer explains what it is like to work for Peakdale Molecular. He gives us an ...
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Naproxen videos: Dr. Matthew Tozer
This resource forms part of a collection of videos that aims to provide undergraduate students with insights into what it is like to work for a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). In these videos Matthew Tozer explains what it is like to work for Peakdale Molecular. He gives us an ...
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The life raft
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a selection of resins and decide which one(s) would be best for producing pure water from sea water on a life raft.
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Six solutions
Devise experiments to label six numbered solutions correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Pheromones
Suggest some chemical and physical properties of a pheromone described and answer some problems related to it.
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Hydrogen peroxide
Find the best catalyst for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide from solutions provided.
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Three white solids
Devise experiments to label three white solids correctly by using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Helping an industrial chemist
Devise a method for making a copper catalyst dispersed on an aluminium oxide support.
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What compound?
Identify a given solid; make a list of all of the compounds the solid could be, suggest as many ways as possible of identifying the solid and use this information to devise an analytical procedure; use this procedure to identify the solid.
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H⁺ ions in water
Estimate the number of H⁺(aq) ions in a single drop of: water; 1.0 mol dm⁻³ HCl; 1.0 mol dm⁻³ NaOH.
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What makes it go?
Carry out certain experiments in a given order. Then without doing any calculations, explain what the driving force of the reaction is in each case – ie qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
