It's Just Math
Research on Students' Understanding of Chemistry and Mathematics
ACS Symposium Series

At the interface between chemistry and mathematics, this book brings together research on the use mathematics in the context of undergraduate chemistry courses. These university-level studies also support national efforts expressed in the Next Generation Science Standards regarding the importance of skills, such as quantitative reasoning and interpreting data. Curated by award-winning leaders in the field, this book is useful for instructors in chemistry, mathematics, and physics at the secondary and university levels.

Dr. Marcy H. Towns is a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. In 2017 she received both the ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry and the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She has over 80 publications, over 2300 citations, and over 100 international and national presentations. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education, focusing on manuscripts pertaining to chemistry education research. is a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. In 2017 she received both the ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry and the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She has over 80 publications, over 2300 citations, and over 100 international and national presentations. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education, focusing on manuscripts pertaining to chemistry education research. Dr. Kinsey Bain earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Bethel University in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University in 2017. Her doctoral work focused on student understanding of energy in the context of chemical reactions/processes. Concurrently, Kinsey also designed and led a National Science Foundation project that investigated student understanding and use of mathematics in the context of chemical kinetics. As a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, she presently leads a research team focused on transforming STEM education through faculty development. One effort of this project focuses on facilitating and supporting faculty by teaching about three-dimensional learning (an adaptation of the National Research Council's