Teaching Multiliteracies in Scientific Discourse: Implications from Symbolic Construction of Chemistry*

Teaching Multiliteracies in Scientific Discourse: Implications from Symbolic Construction of Chemistry

Recent research on science education has increasingly focused on the literacy challenges posed by multimodality. While students are required by government mandated syllabi to make a successful translation between different semiotic resources, there still remains a lack of research on the grammars and functionality of the specialized modalities to develop explicit instructions to improve literac...

Teaching Mathematics to Students of Chemistry with Symbolic Computation

We explain how the use of mathematical software improves the teaching of mathematics to, and its understanding by, students of chemistry, while greatly expanding their capabilities to solve realistic chemical problems. After an explanation of the need to improve this teaching and the opportunity with symbolic computation for this purpose, we outline the content of curriculum and its implementat...

Multiliteracies, E-literature and English Teaching

Teaching Mathematics to Chemistry Students with Symbolic Computation

www.JCE.DivCHED.org • Vol. 84 No. 5 May 2007 • Journal of Chemical Education 889 Students of chemistry find mathematics difficult: some students entering a post-secondary institution even select chemistry rather than physics because they think that they might thereby avoid much mathematics. Even while chemistry has become more mathematical during the past half century, largely because of an inc...

A scientific approach to the teaching of chemistry

Around 1960, there were quite radical changes in emphasis in many countries in school chemistry education, with subsequent changes in many university courses. Considerable research was undertaken to explore the learning problems students were reporting and the common thread underlying became apparent: it related to the way humans process new information. From this research evidence, a model of ...