CALM Homework Instructions
1. Do a google search for “CALM Indiana”. Follow the link, then
click on “High School”
2. In the pulldown menu under “State”, select Ohio.
3. In the pulldown menu under “Select Your School”, select
RiversideHigh School.
4. Click on your class title (either Advanced Placement Chemistry
or Honors Chemistry 1)You can save a lot of time by
bookmarking this page on your computer.
5. Enter your username and password
• Your username is your first initial and your last name. For
example, a student named Phlegm Schmemterman would have the
user name pschmemterman
• Your password is your student ID number. If you don’t know
this, ask me.
6. Click on the button that says “Push me to authenticate”
7. At the top of the page, you will see a plus sign next to the
words “Topic 1” followed by the title associated with this
topic. Click on this plus sign.
8. This will open Topic 1 and show all sections in Topic 1.
Click on the plus sign next to a section, and this will show
all questions within this section, along with the date and
time answers must be submitted by in order to receive credit.
9. Clicking on a question (for example, Question 1) will take you
to that question.
10. Notice that the program will immediately tell you if your
answers are right or wrong, and in some cases will give you
hints to help you out.
11. Once you have answered a question correctly, a check will
appear next to it in the list of questions.
12. Pay close attention to the question; sometimes the way you
need to input the answer is shown in the question.
13. Scientific notation answers should be entered using the
letter e in the place of “x 10 to the”. For example
4.566 x 10-5 should be input as 4.566e-5
This program is very picky about how answers are put in, so a
right answer may be said to be wrong, and the only problem is
how the answer was entered.
Scientific notation numbers may also appear different than
you are accustomed to. The answer above may be given as
4.566e-0005
14. To enter a ratio in CALM, do the following:
1) Reduce the ratio to an X : 1 ratio. For example, if you
had an 8:2 ratio, it would reduce as shown below:
2) The answer you would type in CALM would then be 4
• It is possible to get a ratio involving a decimal. In this
case, you still proceed the same way. For example, if the
ratio for your CALM answer is 3:5, it would reduce as
shown below:
(3 ÷ 5 = .6)
The answer you would type in CALM would then be .6