Prev. Article Next Article Table of Contents

Article

Helping Students Make Sense of Logarithms and Logarithmic Relationships

Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text.

Purchase the full-text

PDF/HTML,
figures/images,
references and tables,
(where available)

Ed DePierro and Fred Garafalo

School of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA 02115

Rick Toomey

Department of Chemistry and Physics, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO 64468

J. Chem. Educ., 2008, 85 (9), p 1226

DOI: 10.1021/ed085p1226

Publication Date (Web): September 1, 2008

Section:

History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

This paper summarizes difficulties that chemistry students at all levels commonly exhibit when translating, manipulating, and interpreting mathematical expressions that contain logarithms, and offers approaches that the authors have found useful to help students overcome such difficulties. The online supplement provides problem sets created by the authors, based on student–instructor interactions that have taken place during many classes, help sessions, and laboratories. They range in level of difficulty from those appropriate for high school and first-year college students, to those appropriate for more advanced students.

Keywords (Audience):

First-Year Undergraduate / General

Keywords (Domain):

Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Constructivism

Keywords (Subject):

Kinetics

View: Hi-Res PDF | PDF w/ Links

Citing Articles

View all 1 citing articles

Citation data is made available by participants in CrossRef's Cited-by Linking service. For a more comprehensive list of citations to this article, users are encouraged to perform a search in SciFinder.

This article has been cited by 1 ACS Journal articles (1 most recent appear below).

Can One Take the Logarithm or the Sine of a Dimensioned Quantity or a Unit? Dimensional Analysis Involving Transcendental Functions
Chérif F. Matta, Lou Massa, Anna V. Gubskaya, Eva Knoll
Journal of Chemical Education2011 88 (1), 67-70
- Can One Take the Logarithm or the Sine of a Dimensioned Quantity or a Unit? Dimensional Analysis Involving Transcendental Functions
  Chérif F. Matta, Lou Massa, Anna V. Gubskaya, Eva Knoll
  Journal of Chemical Education2011 88 (1), 67-70
  The fate of dimensions of dimensioned quantities that are inserted into the argument of transcendental functions such as logarithms, exponentiation, trigonometric, and hyperbolic functions is discussed. Emphasis is placed on common misconceptions that are ...
  Abstract | Full Text HTML | Hi-Res PDF | PDF w/ Links