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Tiêu đề
ConfChem Conference on Mathematics in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction: Building Student Confidence with Chemistry Computation
Tác giả
Craig P.R.
Năm xuất bản
2018
Source title
Journal of Chemical Education
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00091
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
I work in a liberal arts college as a chemistry professor. Not educated in the United States, I have been welcomed into my adopted culture by being given the opportunity to teach that has allowed me to learn about a system I knew little about beforehand. At the college level, chemistry can be portrayed as applied algebra. In my experience, a mastery of algebra rather than just a competence is needed for students to thrive in their learning of chemistry; anything less creates a barrier. The extent of this barrier appears to be exacerbated by the following factors: the lack of continuity of the offering of high school algebra and chemistry prior to entering college, the increased emphasis of attaining confidence at the cost of learning content at high school, and the numbers of students attaining access to college who do not know how to study. This paper looks at attempts to redevelop the robustness of students' chemistry read-only memory (ROM): their ability to identify and apply appropriate computational methods to solve problems without much thinking or hesitation. With the confidence of a reliable ROM, students are better able to learn chemistry at college. This communication summarizes one of the invited papers to the ConfChem online conference on Mathematics in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction, held from October 23 to November 27, 2017, and hosted by the ACS DivCHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE). © 2018 American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
Từ khóa
First-Year Undergraduate/General; Mathematics/Symbolic Mathematics; Problem Solving/Decision Making; Student-Centered Learning
Tài liệu tham khảo
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Nơi xuất bản
American Chemical Society
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
All Open Access; Bronze Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus