Last year, I didn’t do great in math. My philosophy was that it was better to kill it in everything but math than waste time that could be used for other subjects on math and end up with lower scores in other classes,and I was planning on doing the same this year. I just finished my first day of school, and I had no idea chemistry had anything to do with math until today, so now I’m freaking out. How difficult are the equations? He says most of our grade will be lab work. Does lab work involve math?
Lots of sciences use math.
For a regular chem class, you probably won’t need anything beyond a rudimentary knowledge of algebra II topics (E.g. logarithms, as pH is defined logarithmically). The rest of the math is generally not too difficult, for example, solving an equation for a certain variable or computing concentration/molarity.
You should be relatively fine. I know there were a few students in my honors chem class that were in Geometry at that time and still did fine with the math
If you can multiply, you can do the factor-label method, which is like half of honors Chem.
I’m taking it now… It’s not that math intensive when it comes to dimensional analysis, you just need to know conversions. I really like chem so far tho.
I took honors chem last year and have to say I wasn’t too thrilled at the idea of math in the class, especially since I was also taking honors geometry and honors algebra 2 at the same time (and math is my least favorite subject lol). In my opinion though, the math is the easiest part of chem. It’s the most straightforward, compared to the rest of the content. Lab work could include math depending on the teacher or what you’ve learned recently before the lab. Some of the math is pretty basic, like balancing equations (which is basically just counting and being able to multiply lol), but other things will be more challenging.
It could be different depending on what your teacher is like, but if your teacher devotes the right amount of time to the math, you’ll be fine.
In the course description for my honors chem class it says you only really need to know algebra 1, so if you took that or are concurrently taking it then you should be fine.
I took Honors Algebra II and Honors Chemistry last year. Neither course will blow you away, the concepts are fairly easy in each class. Honors Chemistry only requires a fundamental knowledge of Algebra II. If you can do algebra II, you can do chemistry. You’ll be fine.