Who you are teaching
Meet Paulina
Paulina is beginning university chemistry after doing well through memorization at school. She can identify familiar equations, yet coefficients, moles, and limiting reagents still feel like separate tricks. Particle diagrams, dimensional analysis, and prediction before calculation help her connect the symbols to what is physically happening.
Personality: Focused, quietly competitive, patient with calculation, and visibly relieved when symbols connect to a physical picture.