• Question: What helps you to understand the complicated parts of Chemistry?

    Asked by anon-193538 to iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 15 Nov 2018.
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      Emma Crawford answered on 15 Nov 2018:


      Oh well I haven’t studied chemistry since A-level, and that was 11 years ago for me now! I remember when I was struggling then I used to ask my teachers for help, speak with my class-mates and also referred to text books and revision guides when I needed help understanding something.

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      Iain Staniland answered on 15 Nov 2018:


      My Dad!
      I always struggled with chemistry at school and had to work really hard to understand it. My dad was a research chemist who (amongst other things) found ways to make glue more sticky and helped develop blu-tack. He would patiently try to explain things to me, although it must have been frustrating for him. It took me ages to realize that you had to have the same number of elements on each side of a chemical reaction (equation)!

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      Carl Heron answered on 15 Nov 2018:


      Chemistry experiments!

      You get a chance to try something out, to record your observations, talk to others doing the experiments, talk to your teacher, look things up in more detail later and so on.

      I always found it easier to learn that way than trying to follow chemistry in a book.

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 16 Nov 2018:


      Experiments, and visual things like videos, diagrams and drawings. I always thought I was awful at Chemistry at school because I could never remember equations and things, but when I got a new Chemistry teacher they taught in a different style, using YouTube videos and experiments to explain things. I found that really useful, and it turns out I wasn’t just awful at Chemistry – I just learned in a different way 🙂

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