Graphing skills are growing in importance in our information society, presenting facts and concepts in newspapers, magazines, and on television. Graphs incorporated into teaching develop children's problem-solving skills. Ways to use graphs in the classroom are discussed, and examples are given. (MT)

The authors present a scheme for teaching primary grade students about graphing. (SJL)

A rationale for considering the implications of future trends and anticipating the future,'' and specific techniques for teachers. (Editor/SP)

Presents suggestions for helping elementary teachers learn students' names and helping students feel comfortable in the first week of school while studying mathematics skills related to graphing and data. The activities involve graphing students' names and reading a children's book then creating mathematics activities out of the lead character's…

Offers tips on creating interactive bulletin boards and displays designed to help elementary students develop thinking skills and number concepts and to help teachers with such daily tasks as taking attendance, keeping track of birthdays, doing lunch counts, maintaining job lists, and exploring individual student characteristics. (SM)

Graphing activities shouldn't end with data collection; they can be vehicles for communicating information, tools for stimulating discussion and debate, and techniques for engaging students in real mathematical thinking. Graphing activities for primary and intermediate students are suggested. (IAH)

A monthly guide to help teach the basic subjects. Here are suggestions for teaching language arts, science and mathematics. (RK)

Elementary teachers can use graphing to introduce students to one another. An eye color graphing activity helps students learn more about each other while experimenting with different ways of organizing and displaying information. For follow up, students can apply their graphing knowledge by collecting and displaying data from their families. (SM)

This article (1) provides a review of "Anno's Counting House," a wordless picture-story and game that engages children in thinking about numbers; and (2) examines a classroom activity from which children learn that the same data, graphed differently, may support a variety of conclusions. (GLR)

Most learning centers for science are custom-made by enthusiastic teachers eager to experiment with a new way to make science come alive for students. Suggests a way to plan a science center for the classroom. (Author/RK)

The article addresses the needs of primary grade teachers, focusing on whole language. It offers strategies from various primary teachers on such issues as classroom supplies, whole-language displays, literature-based activities, charts, graphs, language logs, end-of-the-day journals, and a class tooth book. (SM)

Two articles focus on helping primary level students grow. One article on the school-home connection describes interactive math homework assignments that involve parents; the other discusses how teachers can help fearful children adjust to school, noting what children fear and offering seven steps to help overly fearful children. (SM)