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When did stoichiometry begin to be taught in U.S. high schools?
When did physics texts start to teach Kepler's $3/2$'s power law as a result of Newton's $1/r^2$ law of gravitation, rather than the other way around?When was the method of getting square roots (invented by Viète in 1610 and developed by Harriot in 1631) first taught to school children?When was atomism first considered a scientific theory?How did Staudinger demonstrate that polymers are high molecular weight covalently bonded molecules?Why did Max Planck forbid women from attending his lectures?How did chemists figure out atomic weights, when hydrogen, etc., were first discovered?What is the etymology of lower case p as the operator for the negative of the common logarithm?Why do we learn little about Mendeleev when compared to other science figures?When did people first become concerned about mercury in fish?How did the early chemists make a connection between gram formula weight with 1 mole and Avogadro's number?
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Stoichiometry, "the quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical or chemical change" (Merriam-Webster), is currently a major part of the U.S. high school curriculum. Given a balanced chemical equation, a student must be able to convert the quantity (in moles, atoms/molecules/formula units, mass, or volume) of one substance into the quantity of another substance and/or another kind of quantity in the equation.
However, I was not taught this in my own high school chemistry class, about 47 years ago. Others near my age also were not taught this. So when did this subject begin to be a common part of high school chemistry?
Note that I am not asking when the concept or the term was invented (by Jeremias Benjamin Richter: see this link or this one), just when it was commonly taught in American high schools. My web searches can find many pages on doing or teaching stoichiometry or on its origins, but nothing on the history of its teaching.
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Stoichiometry, "the quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical or chemical change" (Merriam-Webster), is currently a major part of the U.S. high school curriculum. Given a balanced chemical equation, a student must be able to convert the quantity (in moles, atoms/molecules/formula units, mass, or volume) of one substance into the quantity of another substance and/or another kind of quantity in the equation.
However, I was not taught this in my own high school chemistry class, about 47 years ago. Others near my age also were not taught this. So when did this subject begin to be a common part of high school chemistry?
Note that I am not asking when the concept or the term was invented (by Jeremias Benjamin Richter: see this link or this one), just when it was commonly taught in American high schools. My web searches can find many pages on doing or teaching stoichiometry or on its origins, but nothing on the history of its teaching.
chemistry teaching stoichiometry u.s.a
asked 2 hours ago
Rory DaultonRory Daulton
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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Stoichiometry, "the quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical or chemical change" (Merriam-Webster), is currently a major part of the U.S. high school curriculum. Given a balanced chemical equation, a student must be able to convert the quantity (in moles, atoms/molecules/formula units, mass, or volume) of one substance into the quantity of another substance and/or another kind of quantity in the equation.
However, I was not taught this in my own high school chemistry class, about 47 years ago. Others near my age also were not taught this. So when did this subject begin to be a common part of high school chemistry?
Note that I am not asking when the concept or the term was invented (by Jeremias Benjamin Richter: see this link or this one), just when it was commonly taught in American high schools. My web searches can find many pages on doing or teaching stoichiometry or on its origins, but nothing on the history of its teaching.
chemistry teaching stoichiometry u.s.a
asked 2 hours ago
Rory DaultonRory Daulton
38529
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Stoichiometry, "the quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical or chemical change" (Merriam-Webster), is currently a major part of the U.S. high school curriculum. Given a balanced chemical equation, a student must be able to convert the quantity (in moles, atoms/molecules/formula units, mass, or volume) of one substance into the quantity of another substance and/or another kind of quantity in the equation.
However, I was not taught this in my own high school chemistry class, about 47 years ago. Others near my age also were not taught this. So when did this subject begin to be a common part of high school chemistry?
Note that I am not asking when the concept or the term was invented (by Jeremias Benjamin Richter: see this link or this one), just when it was commonly taught in American high schools. My web searches can find many pages on doing or teaching stoichiometry or on its origins, but nothing on the history of its teaching.
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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It is very hard to separate stoichiometry from chemistry just like separating the concept of addition and subtraction from the teaching of mathematics. As long as atomic weights calculations were taught, knowledge of stoichiometry was essential. I think it was a part and parcel of all chemistry curricula since its beginning in Germany. If you see an essay by "The Outlook for a Better Correlation of Secondary School and College Instruction in Chemistry" written by H. P. Talbot in 1906 and published in Science. One can see that a mastery of stoichiometry was essential.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1634694?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
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– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
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I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
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It is very hard to separate stoichiometry from chemistry just like separating the concept of addition and subtraction from the teaching of mathematics. As long as atomic weights calculations were taught, knowledge of stoichiometry was essential. I think it was a part and parcel of all chemistry curricula since its beginning in Germany. If you see an essay by "The Outlook for a Better Correlation of Secondary School and College Instruction in Chemistry" written by H. P. Talbot in 1906 and published in Science. One can see that a mastery of stoichiometry was essential.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1634694?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
answered 1 hour ago
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As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
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– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
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I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
It is very hard to separate stoichiometry from chemistry just like separating the concept of addition and subtraction from the teaching of mathematics. As long as atomic weights calculations were taught, knowledge of stoichiometry was essential. I think it was a part and parcel of all chemistry curricula since its beginning in Germany. If you see an essay by "The Outlook for a Better Correlation of Secondary School and College Instruction in Chemistry" written by H. P. Talbot in 1906 and published in Science. One can see that a mastery of stoichiometry was essential.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1634694?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
answered 1 hour ago
M. FarooqM. Farooq
576213
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As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
$endgroup$
– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
It is very hard to separate stoichiometry from chemistry just like separating the concept of addition and subtraction from the teaching of mathematics. As long as atomic weights calculations were taught, knowledge of stoichiometry was essential. I think it was a part and parcel of all chemistry curricula since its beginning in Germany. If you see an essay by "The Outlook for a Better Correlation of Secondary School and College Instruction in Chemistry" written by H. P. Talbot in 1906 and published in Science. One can see that a mastery of stoichiometry was essential.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1634694?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
answered 1 hour ago
M. FarooqM. Farooq
576213
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It is very hard to separate stoichiometry from chemistry just like separating the concept of addition and subtraction from the teaching of mathematics. As long as atomic weights calculations were taught, knowledge of stoichiometry was essential. I think it was a part and parcel of all chemistry curricula since its beginning in Germany. If you see an essay by "The Outlook for a Better Correlation of Secondary School and College Instruction in Chemistry" written by H. P. Talbot in 1906 and published in Science. One can see that a mastery of stoichiometry was essential.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1634694?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
answered 1 hour ago
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576213
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As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
$endgroup$
– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
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I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
$endgroup$
– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
$begingroup$
As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
$endgroup$
– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
As I scan the paper, it is not clear to me that the author is saying that stoichiometry is frequently taught in secondary schools--much of the writing is about colleges. One of his points is that secondary school chemistry had a great deal of variety and was often not taught at all. And your viewpoint disagrees with the experience of myself and others. Can you integrate that somehow?
$endgroup$
– Rory Daulton
1 hour ago
$begingroup$
I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
$begingroup$
I forgot to add that you can also search the Journal of Chemical Education. Do a title search and sort by date. I am not sure about secondary schools but I can recall that stoichiometry was discussed in very old books.
$endgroup$
– M. Farooq
52 mins ago
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See Jensen's thesis The Secondary Chemistry Textbook and the History of Secondary Chemistry Teaching, 1820–1960, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 1972. In colleges stoichiometry teaching dates back to Cooke's booklet of 1865, see Jensen's The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems.
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