{"id":795,"date":"2021-02-26T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:57:36","slug":"20-an-experiment-in-the-science-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"20 &#8211; An Acid-Base Math Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the point you are about to teach\u00a0 [H+] and [OH-] in strong acid and base solutions, here\u2019s an experiment you might try that takes only 10 minutes of class time &#8212; and may yield interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive science advises that, when teaching how to solve chem <em>calculations<\/em>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if <em>before<\/em> a new topic is started, students are given review of <em>just<\/em> the <em>number<\/em>-math encountered in topic problems, and<\/li>\n<li>if that practice uses <em>simple<\/em> numbers that students can solve by mental arithmetic,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>when the chem component is added, both the math operations and chemistry will be learned more quickly &#8212; and better retained.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, with real students, might science be right?<\/p>\n<p>As an experiment, at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ChemReview.Net\/pdfs\/ABMathToInstructors.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ChemReview.Net\/pdfs\/ABMathToInstructors.pdf<\/a> \u00a0is an assignment that teaches students the math of calculating [H+] and [OH-] in acidic and basic solutions &#8212; with<em>out<\/em> a calculator &#8212; as a <em>homework<\/em> assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The homework provides worked out answers. \u00a0\u00a0For instructors, quiz questions <em>and<\/em> citations on the cognitive science are included.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an experiment in the science of learning that may help us learn how students can better learn and retain chem \u2013 and it requires only 2 minutes of class time.\u00a0 Worth a try?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#\u00a0 #\u00a0 #\u00a0 #\u00a0 #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the point you are about to teach\u00a0 [H+] and [OH-] in strong acid and base solutions, here\u2019s an experiment you might try that takes only 10 minutes of class time &#8212; and may yield interesting results. Cognitive science advises&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/?p=795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemreview.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}