The Two High-School Pillars Supporting College Science

摘要

Do students need chemistry in order to understand biology? Is biology the best foundation for beginning science students? How is the study of mathematics associated with the study of science? Whether the sequence of science courses has any cognitive relevance is a matter of dispute among science educators, especially given the emerging interdisciplinary underpinnings of traditional ideas in each field. For example, understanding chemical models requires some knowledge of the physics of electrostatics, and a solid foundation in lipid and protein chemistry can help explain the construction of cellular membranes (1-3).