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Publication Date: 2006-Jan
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Moving Chemistry Education into 3D: A Tetrahedral Metaphor for Understanding Chemistry
Mahaffy, Peter
Journal of Chemical Education, v83 n1 p49-55 Jan 2006
A new conceptual metaphor is proposed to enrich the description of chemistry education and support the many existing efforts to help students make connections with the chemistry found in textbooks. A widely used metaphor for chemistry education takes the shape of a planar triangle that highlights three thinking levels in learning chemistry such as symbolic or representational, the macroscopic and the molecular or submicroscopic.
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