Solving Solutions: Exploring unknowns through chemistry

by: John Burns, Granville Yoshina, Debbie Goodding, and Eric Streitberger

Developing middle school students’ problem-solving skills is a common goal of the National Science Education Standards and the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The following chemistry activities support the spirit and content of both of these documents. Specifically, students are introduced to one type of chemical bond by developing the integer operation concept of zero pairs. This leads to an activity of combining drops of 0.3 molar (M) solutions to form six different colored precipitates from five solutions.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 10/1/2000Stock # ss00_024_02_30Volume 024Issue 02

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