Home » Uncategorized

How to Figure Out Your Final Grade

In our school there are only 5 grades that matter, your four Report Card Grades and your Regents Exam Score. Your final grade for the course is determined by adding up the five grades and then dividing by…

Read More »

Odd Things That Come To Me When I Swim

A funny pick sent to me by Evan F.  that is only funny if you are smart. The best jokes are like that, you can laugh at them, and laugh at those who don’t get it too.  (haha)…

Read More »

Gold Foil – How atoms are built

This is a great short video which describes the gold foil experiment to you. Here’s another video, also way good. 

Read More »

Things That Some of You Clearly Don’t Know Yet

Reading the Precipitate Labs and some of the Bonding HW’s I realize that some of you are a bit in the dark about a few important details in chemistry.  Read and learn, or at your own peril, guess…

Read More »

Magic Math – An Odd Reality About This Number

There is no such thing as magic, but I recently saw a video showing me magic.  Here it goes, you can learn this “trick” in minutes, and wow your friends. The number 6174 is special.  Keep that in…

Read More »

School Tool

You need to use this software to check your grades in my class, and all of the rest of your classes. If you can’t get in (duh!) let’s fix this ASAP by calling the number below. Tell them…

Read More »

Unknown Hydrate Lab

The point of this lab is to use the concept of percent composition by mass of water in a hydrated ionic compound to discover which compound is our unknown in lab. You will measure our any amount between…

Read More »

How to Recognize the 5 Kinds of Chemical Reactions

This link jumps you to a short, guide to recognizing the first 5 kinds of chemical reactions. Print it, and read it twenty times.  I’m not kidding. 20x = 79 (that means you’re golden).    

Read More »

Measurement Chemistry – What did we do in class?

Measurement Blog What did we do?  What were you supposed to learn?  What was our Homework?  When’s that stuff due? Friday  9-23 We “celebrated” today. Most of us did.  Some of you were not prepared and your grades…

Read More »

Matter – What did we do in class?

Matter Blog Friday Oct 7 Today we had the gift of our graduate student teach you all about ISOPTOPE math.  Isotopes are important, and here goes… All atoms are isotopes.  Each kind of atom has isotopes of itself. …

Read More »