mereminerals Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 I have a ds who is heading towards a STEM career. What would you recommend in the way of Chemistry? He is finishing up BJU Biology using DIVE right now. He will be taking Geometry and Algebra II next year to get him up to speed on math. I have everything else figured out for 10th, but am completely stuck on Chemistry. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 How did he like the BJU/DIVE combination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 We are currently finishing up chemistry. We have used Chang: General Chemistry with a lab kit from labpaq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 How did he like the BJU/DIVE combination? This was a great combo for us. I added the microchem kit from homesciencetools. There is a list for how to use it with BJU. I did use the 2nd edition BJU however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom22ns Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 BJU Chemistry with DIVE is definitely worth considering if you liked it for Biology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 We are using Tro's Introductory Chemistry. This course is taught over a full school year as a high school chemistry course or over one semester (with 1/4 to 1/3 of the chapters dropped) as a chemistry for non-science majors course in community colleges and universities. I think the text is set up quite nicely with lots of worked-out examples. All problems in the problem-sets are set up in pairs, so I work through an assortment of the evens for my chemistry class and I assign the odds. The solution manual is essential. It has worked out solutions to all the problems, both evens and odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Another vote to continue with BJU and Dive. I did this with my boys last year. It's a rigorous course and will prepare for a STEM major. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereminerals Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 How did he like the BJU/DIVE combination? He liked it okay and is probably the direction I should continue. Which edition would be the best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereminerals Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 We are currently finishing up chemistry. We have used Chang: General Chemistry with a lab kit from labpaq. Thank you. Off to check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereminerals Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 We are using Tro's Introductory Chemistry. This course is taught over a full school year as a high school chemistry course or over one semester (with 1/4 to 1/3 of the chapters dropped) as a chemistry for non-science majors course in community colleges and universities. I think the text is set up quite nicely with lots of worked-out examples. All problems in the problem-sets are set up in pairs, so I work through an assortment of the evens for my chemistry class and I assign the odds. The solution manual is essential. It has worked out solutions to all the problems, both evens and odds. Will be adding this to my list to check out. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereminerals Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 If we decide to continue with DIVE and BJU, which edition is recommended for Chemistry? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb in NJ Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 We used Chemistry by Brown Lemay Brown. Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 We used the BJU Chemistry 3rd edition. We did have some trouble getting some of the same answers ("K" values, etc.) using the charts in the BJU text. So we finally just used the charts from the DIVE - we emailed the DIVE instructor and he said they may have slightly different numbers, but some of our numbers were just way different (I still have no idea why). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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