Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach

by Thomas R. Gilbert, Rein V. Kirss, Stacey Lowery Bretz

A research-based, atoms-focused text and assessment package that helps students visualize chemistry as they solve problems. The exciting new Third Edition expands on the visualization pedagogy from co-author Stacey Lowery Bretz and makes it even easier to implement in the classroom. Based on her Chemistry Education Research on how students construct and interpret multiple representations, art in the book and media has been revised to be more pedagogically effective and address student misconceptions. New projected visualization problems help instructors assess students’ conceptual understanding in lecture or during exams. A new Interactive Instructor’s Guide provides innovative ways to incorporate research-based active learning pedagogy into the classroom.

Genres: Textbooks, Science, Nonfiction

1328 pages, hardcover

First published August 1, 2013

Reviews

[melina · Rating 2 out of 5]

i spent so many hours and so many tears on this book so it gets to go on my goodreads. written awfully. the writers are good at nothing other than being snarky from time to time. two stars bcus some of the images are nice and i ❤️ chemistry.

[Ian McCord · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book at times, at other times trying to get the info i needed was like drawing water from a stone.

Why are nucleon u weights in chapter 2, when a student would have no idea what it means or why its important, but they're listed nowhere in the nuclear chemistry chapter when you need them to calculate mass defect??

Also chapters 15/16 could easily be condensed. 15 became long winded on a relatively simple concept. The space used would have been better applied towards beefing up the chapter on electrochemtistry or solid state stuff.

[Catherine Mohs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent college Chemistry textbook! The examples are great and there are many practice problems for each chapter. And if you get the software too, there are tutorials and animations which are very helpful.

[Olivia Damiano · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually read this whole textbook. Got me through chem 105 and 106. According to my ebook I spent 5180 minutes reading it which is like 86 hours 😭😭

[Remus Rimbu · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good textbook introducing chemistry as a science from the reductionist perspective of atoms.