All the fun of significant figures and conversions without any of the calories! (updated 6/27/22)

• Takin’ Data:  A general overview of the topics in the tutorials below.
• Significant figures:  Chemistry teachers like to write “sig figs” on papers before writing “-1.”  Find out how to avoid this fate by learning about significant figures, precision, and accuracy.
• Significant Figures PPT:  Another explanation of significant figures for those of you who love slides.  I don’t go over calculations here because I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re not all that important to know until you hit AP Chem.  Your teacher may disagree.
• Calculations involving significant figures:  For those of you who are fans of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, here’s a little something for you to enjoy.
• Units and conversions:  Learn about SI units and how to convert between them.  It’ll be fun!
• Units (PowerPoint):  Learn about SI/metric units, how to convert between them, and what the deal is with all those prefixes, all in handy PowerPoint form.
• Drawing good graphs:  If you’re drawing a bar graph, hang your head in shame.  If you want to learn how to make a graph that will get published in the finest scientific journals (i.e. your lab book), read on!

Used with the kind permission of xkcd.  Check out the site at www.xkcd.com, because it’s awesome.  Trust me.

Supplemental videos:  These videos are all over at the amazing Crash Course YouTube channel.  I didn’t make these, though I wish I did.

• Crash Course Science #2:  Units and significant figures:  I love this series of videos, and will be referring to them often.