Exploring Creation with Chemistry

For the past 4 years, I have taught homeschool chemistry classes in my home using this text, as well as Biology and Physics with Wile's curriculum. Wile's texts are so truly readable, making the concepts very understandable. In reading his texts, even I as a teacher have had some "aha" moments, as he has connected some things for me that had not been clear before. If you want your student to truly understand the concepts in addition to being able to work problems, get this text. I do enjoy adding extras to my class, including more high-powered labs, to make an honors class, but this course (as is) is certainly sufficient for a college-bound student. I have taught out of several different texts over the years, and this one is by far my favorite. Most texts are so unreadable that I never assigned reading, using the text only as a source of problems, but with Wile's texts, my students read from cover to cover.

We have a son who is a rising senior in an engineering program at a well regarded "secular" state school. He sailed through his freshman chemistry there, since he had seen it all before in this book at home. His math wasn't so good, so he traded chemistry help for math help.

I am in 10th grade and have done Dr. Wile's Apologia books for 4 years. I love them. They cover hard concepts (infact I and a couple of other homeschoolers passed the CLEP test for biology) but he is very clear with the way he explains them. Everything makes sense. The website mentioned in the front of the book is very helpful too.

The other reviewer is very misinformed. This site is for the second edition, which explains and practices sig figs, the factor-label method, and basically everything else very clearly. I feel like everything I'm learning in this book is a piece of cake, and have thus wondered whether this book is rigorous enough for homeschoolers, but looking around more, I find that this book does teach hard chemical concepts, but somehow makes them feel like second grade math. (...)