{"id":599,"date":"2010-10-30T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T06:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2010\/10\/advice-on-working-with-models.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:02","slug":"advice-on-working-with-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2010\/10\/advice-on-working-with-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on working with models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem-solving<br \/>\nand working with molecular models are fundamentally different activities. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nnatural to feel some urgency when you practice solving problems, and the more<br \/>\nyou practice solving a certain kind of problem, the easier and faster it should<br \/>\nget.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a useful way to approach the molecular modeling questions on homework assignments. The models that<br \/>\nyou build contain a lot of information, some of it useful, some of it<br \/>\nnot. You should take your time to<br \/>\nlook the models over from different angles, juxtapose what you see against what you have learned<br \/>\nelsewhere, and develop some mental pictures that inform your understanding of<br \/>\nchemical phenomena. The goal is not to learn a new problem-solving skill, but to create another dimension for thinking about chemistry. If you don&#8217;t feel like you have the time to do this, save<br \/>\nthe models for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem-solving and working with molecular models are fundamentally different activities. It&apos;s natural to feel some urgency when you practice solving problems, and the more you practice solving a certain kind of problem, the easier and faster it should get.This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22,32],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-hw","tag-molecular-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}