Introductory Chemistry: Concepts and Critical Thinking, 8th Edition

Builds Problem-Solving Skills

• NEW! Example Exercises have been added. Example Exercises areformatted to demonstrate concepts and promote critical thinking (Example Exercise, Solution, Practice Exercise, Concept Exercise).
• NEW! Concept Exercises now accompany all example and practice exercises, presenting each topic at a higher level.
• NEW! Two-Column Example Exercises use the unit analysis method to show students a logical way to apply three-step problem solving to worked-out example problems.
• Strategy Plans and Unit Analysis Maps, in selected example exercises in the quantitative chapters, give students a method they can use for problem solving.
• Approximately one third of the end-of-chapter Exercises have been revised, along with the Self-Test that follows each end-of-chapter exercise.
• A new Chapter Number — Atomic Number theme ties the chapter number to the element with the same atomic number. The related chapter opening photo and caption reinforce the connection and build interest.
• Problem Solving Organizers help students become effective problem solvers. These contain a synopsis of the types of calculations found in the chapter, the correct procedure for solving each type of problem covered in the chapter, and an illustrated example of the problem type.
• Self-Tests conclude each chapter with Review Exercises (multiple-choice), Key Concepts questions (short answer), and Critical Thinking questions (short answer).
• The Prerequisite Science Skills interlude helps students with weak math/science backgrounds prepare for chemical calculations. The brief interlude is an optional assignment at the discretion of the instructor and can be found between chapters one and two in the text.

Helps students think critically and understand chemistry concepts and the relevance to their lives 

• NEW! Each chapter opener image is introduced with a numerical reference to an element in the periodic table. For example, Chapter 1 is introduced by the first element, hydrogen, along with a brief description.
• NEW! New to this edition, A Closer Look boxes offer insights and thought-provoking information on topics such as “Nuking” Food in a Microwave Oven, Nitrogen in Tires, Household Chemicals, The Ozone Hole, and Water Fluoridation, designed to connect students to the chemical world around them and, often, provide examples of common misconceptions.
• NEW! Helpful Hints features, in which the author addresses the student directly, provide private “coaching,” based on points of known difficulty and confusion, helping students when and where they need it.
• NEW! UPDATED! Contemporary and relevant examples have been added or updated throughout the textbook, keeping the content fresh for today’s students.
• Chemistry Connections vignettes cover industrial processes, consumer chemistry, historical profiles, environmental concerns, and more. They familiarize students with motivational, real-world applications that emphasize the important role of chemistry in everyday life.
• Macro/micro and molecular art helps students connect the things they encounter in everyday life (the macro view) with depictions of molecules that chemists visualize every day (the micro view). In Corwin's text, the two representations are presented together.
• NEW! Section 6.7, Latin System of Nomenclature has been added to provide instructors the option to assign, or not assign, the Latin System based on course objectives. As the Stock System is preferred by IUPAC, some textbooks have deleted the Latin System.

Also available with Mastering Chemistry

Mastering^™ Chemistry from Pearson is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment system, designed to improve results by engaging students with powerful content. Instructors ensure students arrive ready to learn by assigning educationally effective content and encourage critical thinking and retention with in-class resources such as Learning Catalytics^™. Students can further master concepts through homework assignments that provide hints and answer-specific feedback. The Mastering gradebook records scores for all automatically graded assignments in one place, while diagnostic tools give instructors access to rich data to assess student understanding and misconceptions. 

• Before Class
• NEW! Prerequisite Science Skill Video Tutor Solutions cover topics of measurements, significant digits, rounding off nonsignificant digits, adding and subtracting measurements, multiplying and dividing measurements, exponential numbers, and scientific notation from the popular Pre-requisite Science Skills section of the book, preparing students for success in introductory chemistry and beyond.
• NEW! The Chemistry Primer helps students remediate their chemistry math skills and prepare for their first college chemistry course.
• Pre-built Assignments get students up to speed at the beginning of the course.
• Math is covered in the context of chemistry, basic chemical literacy, balancing chemical equations, mole theory, and stoichiometry.
• Scaled to students’ needs, remediation is only suggested to students that perform poorly on an initial problem.
• Remediation includes tutorials, wrong-answer specific feedback, video instruction, and step-wise scaffolding to build students’ abilities.
• NEW! 66 Dynamic Study Modules adapt to each student, helping students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. Once completed, Dynamic Study Modules explain the concept using materials from the text. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers and questions can be added or removed to match coverage.
• NEW! eText 2.0
• Full eReader functionality includes page navigation, search, glossary, highlighting, note taking, annotations, and more. 
• A responsive design allows the eText to reflow/resize to a device or screen. eText 2.0 now works on supported smartphones, tablets, and laptop/desktop computers.
• In-context glossary offers students instant access to definitions by simply hovering over key terms.
• Seamlessly integrated videos and activities allow students to watch and practice key concepts within the eText learning experience.
• Accessible (screen-reader ready).
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.
• Assignable, in-depth tutorials guide students through the toughest topics in chemistry with individualized coaching. These self-paced tutorials coach students with hints and feedback specific to individual misconceptions. Tutorials respond to a wide variety of typical wrong answers that students enter at any step. Tutorials offer students hints, allowing them to choose specific help when they need it.
• Math Remediation links in selected tutorials launch algorithmically generated math exercises that give students unlimited practice on prerequisite skills, freeing up class and office-hour time to focus on the chemistry. Exercises include guided solutions, sample problems, and learning aids for extra help, and offer helpful feedback when students enter incorrect answers.
• Reading Quizzes give instructors the opportunity to assign reading, and test students on their comprehension of chapter content.
• Key Math Skills and Core Chemistry Skills Tutorials provide assignable practice problems related to the in-text feature boxes, ensuring that students master the basic quantitative and science skills they need to succeed in the course.
• Learning Objectives in each section bring the main goals of each section to the foreground, and are linked to end-of-chapter problems in the text and throughout Mastering Chemistry content. These learning objectives give focus points to each section and will increase efficiencies in teaching and learning.
• During Class
• Visualizations are tutorials that enable students to make connections between real-life phenomena and the underlying chemistry that explains such phenomena. The tutorials, many of them interactive and require student participation, increase the conceptual understanding of the topic and clearly illustrate cause-and-effect relationships.
• UPDATED! Learning Catalytics^™ helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
• NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.
• After Class
• Pause and Predict Videos engage students by requiring them to submit a prediction about the outcome of an experiment or demonstration before seeing the final result. A set of assignable tutorials based on these videos challenge students to transfer their understanding of the demonstration to related scenarios. These videos are also available in the Pearson eText.
• Enhanced end-of-chapter questions with answer-specific feedback use data gathered from all of the students using the program, to offer wrong-answer feedback that is specific to each student. Rather than simply providing feedback of the "right/wrong/try again" variety, Mastering guides students towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.
• Thousands of test bank problems are provided, allowing instructors to use the same system for building tests and exams for on- or off-line delivery. Instructors can also include a wide variety (multiple-choice, short-answer, randomized numerical, and choose-all-that-apply) of problems in weekly homework assignments.