Actually, that’s NOT what I’m talking about here. This post isn’t about whether paramagnetism is (or is not) testable, rather it’s about some much bigger point. I think it has the potential to help inexperienced teachers. I hear a lot that ‘paramagnetism is no longer tested, because I did a search of the CED and […]
More, potentially useless Wordles
September 9, 2015 by 2 Comments
I recently re-visited the Wordles that I first produced in June of 2013 for the original versions of my AP Chemistry notes for Big Ideas 1-6. You can read about them here. Before I update those Wordles again to reflect the newer versions of the notes more than 2 years down the road (which I […]
Here’s a question that will be on the 2015 AP Chemistry exam
April 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Well, maybe…..but probably not. Oh, I dunno! This evening, Paul Price led an AACT sponsored webinar entitled, ‘Reviewing for the AP Chemistry Exam‘. As a pretty experienced AP chemistry teacher who spends an inordinate amount of time carefully studying this type of thing, there wasn’t anything in the webinar that I didn’t already know, but […]
Subscriber Updates (03-18-14)
March 18, 2014 by
The Unit 1 notes have undergone a tiny change on page 12. The speed of light equation was incorrectly rendered from the Word document to the pdf document, but that has now been amended.
Subscriber Updates (09-09-13)
September 9, 2013 by
As expected, as I go through this new course for the first time there will be the need to update, correct and tweak the new materials. There are a couple of different reasons for this. Firstly, as I work with the new course on its maiden voyage, there will be things that I initially thought […]
Writing good answers to AP Periodicity problems
November 15, 2012 by 4 Comments
In my experience, the majority of kids understand most of the chemistry behind the periodic trends typically asked in AP, free response questions, but way too often they cannot express that knowledge in succinct, meaningful English that allows (and encourages) the graders to award credit. As a result, students tend to score poorly on a […]
