Articles Tagged with chemistry

Breadcrumbs

Published on March 5, 2024March 4, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Not even suggestions

Our tutor’s activities sometimes depart from the syllabus.

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Aldehydes and ketones

Published on February 6, 2024February 4, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The road not taken

Our tutor considers past alternatives.

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Rereading

Published on August 1, 2023July 31, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

and relearning

We go back to some old textbooks.

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Factoring

Published on February 14, 2023February 12, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Four ways

Our tutor is faced with too many alternatives.

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Liquids in space?

Published on September 13, 2022September 11, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Chemical calculations

An offhand comment led to a set of hybrid calculations.

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Knowing too much (II)

Published on February 8, 2022February 6, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Mind the gap

Sometimes there’s a space between too little and too much.

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Changing the world, or not

Published on September 28, 2021September 26, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Recording sight and sound

Some inventions change society; others don’t.  Why?

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The courage of one’s calculations

Published on August 10, 2021August 9, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Knowledge and its uses

Knowing how to do something, and doing it, are not the same thing.

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In the back of the book

Published on May 25, 2021May 24, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The right answer

How did the answers in the answer key get there?

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Mixing subjects

Published on September 8, 2020September 7, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Crossing boundaries

We put forward an idea for a college class that will probably never happen.

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