Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. 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.
This resource includes information about some key misconceptions that have been uncovered by research and ideas about a variety of teaching approaches that may help avoid students acquiring some common misconceptions.
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and this book has been designed to help tackle the issue of misconceptions which can arise. All of the chapters are available for free via Learn Chemistry.
Use these resources to familiarise 16–18 students with the maths involved in time-of-flight calcuations
Explore the role of chemistry in drug discovery with this worksheet
Heat a known mass of two metals to produce their oxides and determine their relative atomic masses.
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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