Yay!
I finally completed the lecture series High School Level—Chemistry. I understood everything presented but had a minor problem with the solubility equilibria problems in the last lecture because I couldn’t recall how to rearrange the equations to find an unknown i.e. problems that were essentially mathematical in nature. Other than that, I deepened my understanding of basic chemistry and general problem solving. In high school, and during the first year of my science degree, I rote learned pretty much everything, but these lecturers presented the subject matter in such a way that I began to ‘intrinsically’ appreciate each of the variables such as mass, moles and molarity. This made problem solving far more intuitive. The lecturer, Frank Cardulla, is a brilliant teacher.
Revising High School
I am revising some of my high school chemistry and basic maths by doing the Teaching Company courses High School Level—Basic Math and High School Level—Chemistry. I am about one-third to a half way through them both. I won’t blog on them because I am going through them fairly fast and probably don’t need to remember everything. I did the lectures on multiplying decimals before and have already forgotten the exact details, but I do hope that I am prompted to recall the broader concepts in greater detail. Plus, I can always go back over the parts that I have forgotten, should I need to. I am going to do Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear next and I want to put much more effort into understanding that subject (I did introductory statistics at university, but never fully appreciated the subject, and want to now come to a better understanding, and a fuller appreciation, of it.)
