@sellathechemist @martinvermeer I think there are two ideas coming up in this discussion. One is about having a feel for the approximate size of the value calculated. Does this seem about the right size? The second is about certainty/uncertainty. How sure can we be that this value is correct?
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Interesting view from Peter Atkins at the RSC Historial Group - don't tell students that there's a lot of hard maths in chemistry. -
Interesting view from Peter Atkins at the RSC Historial Group - don't tell students that there's a lot of hard maths in chemistry.@sellathechemist @martinvermeer Experience from school suggests that even where teachers are confident, there's sometimes a 'receptiveness' barrier with students. In one school a student regularly referred to my 'obsession with significant figures' and did not act on advice!
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Interesting view from Peter Atkins at the RSC Historial Group - don't tell students that there's a lot of hard maths in chemistry.@martinvermeer @sellathechemist Yes, or a close member of my family calculating that a satellite was in orbit at a height burrowing just below the Earth's surface.
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Interesting view from Peter Atkins at the RSC Historial Group - don't tell students that there's a lot of hard maths in chemistry.@sellathechemist Do you think the high school curriculum would do better to focus on concepts? Leave the maths to the maths teachers and programmes, and have chemistry (or in my case physics) teachers focus on the chemistry (or physics)? #chemistryeducation #physicseducation
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Blue Ridge Audubon recently awarded a grant to study Northern Saw-whet Owl migration in the Appalachian Mountains.@owlsintowels On the trail of the lonesome owl?