This paper presents views on the teaching of chemistry and directions for its further development. A detailed critical analysis is offered for the inadequacy of much of the current teaching, weighed that it is by a conventional, traditional and, as it turns out, rather outdated sense of the material to be covered. The ambient meta-discourse on the…

Examines a variety of mistakes found in published materials and practiced by classroom teachers. Provides examples of mistakes in reading time, place value, price notation, geometry, and language. (YP)