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Mathematics and Chemistry: the Classroom Interface
This resource looks at areas of the chemistry curriculum where mathematics is used, creating an opportunity for co-operation between chemistry and mathematics teachers. This booklet serves as good preparation material for CPD work between departments.
Section One considers how proportion is used in chemical equations, the need to re-arrange formulae and be able to deal with directed numbers. Graphs are then looked at in detail covering choice and labelling of axes, choice of scale, whether the zero should be shown, marking the points, gradients and tangents and the intersection of two straight lines.
Section Two considers Venn diagrams and sets, finding relationships between variables including the use of logarithms, reflections and stretches, mapping diagrams, flow diagrams, topology and isomorphism and simple probability.
This resource is from the Co-operation between Science Teachers and Mathematics Teachers seriesproduced by the ISCU Committee on the Teaching of Science.
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