The Mole

A response to the Misunderstood Activity
created by Trish Morrow (@tmorrow)

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In chemistry students often struggle with the concept of the mole.  It is an extremely large number, always shown in scientific notation.  To help students better understand this concept I use the concept of a dozen.  I use images showing a dozen eggs and then do some mathematical calculations using the ‘dozen’.  I then use the same calculation but relating it to the mole.