This textbook aims to present the mathematical sciences in clear, everyday language for apprentices, students and mechanics--willing, industrious, anxious to study at home, yet unable to give time or money for professional teaching. It is trusted that this effort to place before English-speaking students a treatise on arithmetic and algebra, freed…

This textbook is a primary reading primer. Word lists are included.

This document describes the adaptation of an American inservice teacher training package to German teacher education programs. Far West Laboratory's "Minicourse Nine" was processed in two steps in order to field-test the material and to eliminate possible language inconsistencies. Difficulties in the transference of educational material…

Suggests how rhetorical criticism might be most productively focused by concentrating on the message, value premises, and strategies. (PD)

This volume is intended for use in introductory research courses in which elementary and early childhood teachers, reading specialists, special education teachers, and content area teachers at the middle and secondary school levels are prepared as consumers of educational research rather than producers of educational research. The text provides…

This textbook is an analysis of the system of mathematical instruction which has been steadily pursued at the United States Military Academy over a quarter of a century and which has given to that institution its celebrity as a school of mathematical science. The book covers logic as science and art, mathematical science, and the utility of…

The sole purpose of this volume is to provide an elementary course of chemistry suited to the wants of students and teachers in high schools and academies. The course seeks to present the most valuable topics for a student whose study ends when he leaves the preparatory school, while at the same time providing appropriate preparation for higher…

This textbook is an attempt to present fundamental world relations and their simple derivatives in such form that they may be conceived as an entirety in a system of coordinated principles through geography and astronomy. Chapter I presents an introduction. Chapter II presents a psychological and a pedagogical view. Chapters III and IV present…

Elementary children can be introduced to the historical processes of evaluating and interpreting materials within the existing curriculum. Activities for teachers and students are suggested. (AM)

Contains a primary source document--a letter written in 1916 protesting U.S. Postal Service censorship of an anarchist publication--and suggests ways to use the document in secondary U.S. history classes. Samples of student surveys on mail censorship and a document analysis worksheet are included. (AM)

To obtain information on the efficacy of college essay tests a study was undertaken to determine strategies used by students in answering essay tests. Expressing a similar opinion to the teacher's is the most common strategy. This finding casts doubt on the assumption that essay tests provide opportunity for students to exercise creativity and…

Presents a university-developed framework for a peace studies program on the high school level. Objectives include to develop a critical peace consciousness, to help students become responsible decision makers in questions involving violence, and to gain a deeper understanding of human potential. Journal available from World Studies Resource…

Describes the use of a crossword puzzle for testing students for content in a Greek mythology course. Includes a sample crossword puzzle. (TJ)

Described is a cooperative content study group approach to learning that minimizes individual student memorization and maximizes student interaction. Directions for preparing instructional materials and implementing cooperative home teams, a sample home team worksheet, sample test and study items, and hints and suggestions are included. (KR)

Proposes a way to improve the quality of statistics teaching to undergraduate engineering students. Teaching quality can be understood as a goal to be achieved in three nurtured phases: (1) course planning; (2) adoption of methodological approach; and (3) evaluation of results. (Author/SAH)