Unrivaled problems, notable scientific accuracy and currency, and remarkable clarity have made Chemistry: The Central Science the leading general chemistry text for more than a decade. Trusted, innovative, and calibrated, the text increases conceptual understanding and student success in general chemistry by building on the expertise of the dynamic author team of leading researchers and award-winning professors.

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• Enhanced learning from a dynamic author team of leading researchers and award-winning professors: Each member of this well-respected author team brings their expertise in a wide range of areas to the pages of this popular text. All authors have been active researchers and have taught general chemistry for many years.

• Improved conceptual understanding through stepped up, relevant pedagogy: Students get numerous opportunities to test their knowledge through Give It Some Thought (GIST) exercises, Go Figure questions, and A Closer Look essays, now integrated with clicker questions and in MasteringChemistry.

• Invaluable aids that ensure problem-solving success:  By using a consistent process, a unique Analyze/Plan/Solve/Check format, dual-column problem-solving approach in certain areas, a new practice exercise following each worked example, and the Strategies in Chemistry feature, students are placed on the right path from the very start to excel at problem solving and comprehension.

• Clarity through visualization from a variety of perspectives, including macroscopic, microscopic, and symbolic: Included are Visualizing Concepts exercises, with models, graphs, and other visual materials; sample exercises with molecular illustrations; and conceptual questions in the end-of-chapter questions.

This title is available with MasteringChemistry®.  MasteringChemistry is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

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Enhanced learning from a dynamic author team of leading researchers and award-winning professors

• Brown, LeMay, Bursten, Murphy, Woodward, and Stoltzfus bring their expertise in a variety of areas to the pages of this popular text. Well respected for their clarity of explanations, ability to lead students down a clear learning path, scientific accuracy and currency, strong end-of-chapter exercises, and consistency in level of coverage, the authors continue to innovate by utilizing their research and classroom  experience in the text through:

• NEW! Data-Driven Problem Revisions: In order to make informed decisions, the author team consulted the massive reservoir of data available through MasteringChemistry to revise their question bank. In particular, they analyzed which problems were frequently assigned and why; they paid careful attention to the amount of time it took students to work through a problem (flagging those that took longer than expected) and they observed the wrong answer submissions and hints used (a measure used to calculate the difficulty of problems). This “metadata” served as a starting point for the discussion of which end of chapter questions should be changed.

• NEW! Design An Experiment feature provides a departure from the usual kinds of end-of-chapter exercises with an inquiry-based, open-ended approach that tries to stimulate the student to “think like a scientist.” Designed to foster critical thinking, each exercise presents the student with a scenario in which various unknowns require investigation. The student is called upon to ponder how experiments might be set up to provide answers to particular questions about observations.

• Chemistry and Life, and Chemistry Put to Work features help students connect chemistry to world events, scientific discoveries, and medical breakthroughs.

• Integrative Exercises, which are included among the exercises at the end of chapters 3-24, connect concepts for the current chapter with those from previous chapters. These help students gain a deeper understanding of how chemistry fits together and serve as an overall review of key concepts.

Improved conceptual understanding through stepped up, relevant pedagogy

• Informal, sharply focused Give It Some Thought (GIST) exercises let students test just how well they’re “getting it” as they move through the course.

• NEW! 25% additional Go Figure questions let students stop and take time to analyze the artwork in the text to be sure they understand the concept behind it. Based on success in the Twelfth Edition, the number has been greatly enhanced for the Thirteenth Edition.  

• Outstanding pedagogical features promote reinforcement through practice and review, among them:

  • Learning Outcomes at the end of each chapter identify skills that students should be able to perform after studying each section.

  • Streamlined End-of-Chapter Exercises grouped by topic and presented in matched pairs.

  • Integrative Exercisesincluded among the exercises at the end of chapters 3 through 24; and Sample Integrative Exercises in many chapters that show how to analyze and solve problems encompassing more than one concept.

  • A Closer Look essays cover high-interest topics in more detail.

  • Conceptual Questions are developed around the GIST and Go Figure questions and integrated with classroom clicker questions. In turn, these questions are integrated into MasteringChemisty.

• Data-Driven Problem Revisions In order to make informed decisions, the author team consulted the massive reservoir of data available through MasteringChemistry to revise their question bank. In particular, they analyzed which problems were frequently assigned and why; they paid careful attention to the amount of time it took students to work through a problem (flagging those that took longer than expected) and they observed the wrong answer submissions and hints used (a measure used to calculate the difficulty of problems). This “metadata” served as a starting point for the discussion of which end of chapter questions should be changed.

• Design An Experiment feature provides a departure from the usual kinds of end-of-chapter exercises with an inquiry-based, open-ended approach that tries to stimulate the student to “think like a scientist.” Designed to foster critical thinking, each exercise presents the student with a scenario in which various unknowns require investigation. The student is called upon to ponder how experiments might be set up to provide answers to particular questions about observations.

Improved conceptual understanding through stepped up, relevant pedagogy

• 25% additional Go Figure questions let students stop and take time to analyze the artwork in the text to be sure they understand the concept behind it. Based on success in the Twelfth Edition, the number has been greatly enhanced for the Thirteenth Edition.  

Invaluable aids that ensure problem-solving success

• Addition of Second Practice Exercises to accompany each Sample Exercise within the chapters. The new Practice Exercises are multiple-choice with correct answers provided for the students in an appendix. Specific wrong answer feedback, written by the authors will be available in MasteringChemistry. The primary goal of the new Practice Exercise feature is to provide students with an additional problem to test mastery of the concepts in the text and to address the most common conceptual misunderstandings. To ensure that the questions touched on the most common misconceptions, the authors consulted the ACS Chemistry Concept inventory before writing their questions.

Content updates include:

• Increased emphasis on meeting the needs of the various levels of students in today’s general chemistry class by focusing on the misconceptions of fundamental chemistry concepts.

This title is available with MasteringChemistry®. MasteringChemistry is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

Superior support beyond the classroom with MasteringChemistry®

• Better integration of the textbook with MasteringChemistry is accomplished through features such as Practice exercises with wrong-answer feedback that act as a bridge between the formative tutorials and the challenging end-of-chapter questions.

• Digital co-author Dr. Matthew W. Stoltzfus contributes to the text and provides his expertise to enhance the digital assets associated with the author content. As a Digital First Faculty Fellow at The Ohio State University, he teaches with the 'flipping the classroom' lecture approach, recently featured on ESPN and NPR mainly due to his iTunesU course, which has an enrollment of over 105,000 students.

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