While researchers and teachers are still sorting out which programs work best in which circumstances, some basic ideas about thinking can be used by teachers. Suggestions for encouraging thinking in the classroom are offered. (MT)

A teacher offers six suggestions for giving students opportunities to exercise their commonsense thinking skills. This allows the teacher to ask rather than tell, listen rather than talk, and allows the children to provide for themselves. (MT)

Describes an exercise designed to demonstrate the effects of personality on problem formation and problem solving. Participants are provided a supportive environment in which to discover for themselves their personality/problem solving style and compare it with that of others. (LLS)

The author discusses the two basic advisory styles: (1) pumping advice in and (2) drawing information out that helps individuals solve their own problems. He demonstrates the major differences between these styles and indicates the conditions under which each is appropriate. (CH)

Using license plates and telephone numbers for teaching probability ideas involving counting rules is suggested. How each is useful is illustrated in some detail. (MNS)

Relates five methods that San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater used to get through financial setbacks and the 1989 earthquake, which damaged its building. (PA)

Presents a practical framework for those, such as urban education administrators, who must work with angry people. Focuses on the causes of anger, the negotiation process, trust building, problem solving, confrontation strategies and deadlocks. (KH)

The authors demonstrate how the theories of Piaget and Perry can be applied in a framework for developing instructional methods for courses in home economics. They review these theories, suggest ideas for assessing the developmental stage of the student, and discuss strategies for facilitating student development and learning. (CH)

An example is noted in which a given problem is reformulated and extended. The problem solving includes discussion and dispute, plus the recognition that different approaches are both possible and desirable, is thus demonstrated. (MNS)

A traveling salesman problem is used to illustrate the key idea in a general proof of a reduction technique. It is reduced to a problem in propositional calculus. (MNS)

Uses the modern development of mathematics education in the United States as background for the analysis of the influence of mathematics philosophy on mathematics education. Discusses the problem of how to develop the subject of philosophy of mathematics education, regarded as an impetus from mathematics education, to the further development of…

Using a proportions approach to solving the three types of percent problems is discussed, with a drawing of a comparison scale. (MNS)

A letter from a parent about a homework assignment involving much repetition (and time) is used as the vehicle to discuss the problem. (MNS)

A step-by-step tutorial on planning, building, and debugging a BASIC program. (JL)

The article presents and discusses an optimization problem concerned with observing objects from a moving car. (MK)