This paper raises a series of questions about the nature of classroom instruction, in general, and about mathematics and reading instruction in the lower elementary school grades, in particular. It focuses on such aspects of the social organization of instruction as (1) the diversity of student populations, (2) the motivating force behind…

The intent of this theoretical paper is to recast our ideas about teaching mathematics as a result of an extensive research review on teaching behaviors. The product of this review is an explanatory curricular model which takes into account the content being taught. The purpose of studying teaching from a curricular perspective and the constructs…

This manuscript on mathematics was prepared by Dr. Edwin S. Lide, one of the full-time workers on the Survey. It gives attention to courses of study mostly in mimeographed form which he succeeded in obtaining and to personal visitations which he made to the various schools. It covers the work in the junior high school and in the senior high…