ConfChem Conference on Mathematics in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction: Estimation—An Empowering Skill for Students in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

• Autores: Lynn S. Penn
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 95, Nº 8, 2018, págs. 1426-1427
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Today’s students have always used calculators to compute answers to problems, and as a result, they have a poor sense of the expected size of a physical quantity and cannot tell if their computed value is realistic or unrealistic. Students place great faith in the correctness of calculators, but they fail to acknowledge their mistakes in typing numerical values or in entering mathematical operations. These factors together not only contribute to poorer grades on exams and problem sets in their coursework, but also lead to embarrassing mistakes on group projects and in the professional workplace. The anodyne to this is a workshop approach to developing estimation skills. This report summarizes paper 1 of the 8 invited papers to the ConfChem online conference held from October 23 to November 27, 2017, and hosted by the ACS DivCHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE).