This book contains 52 units designed to assist teachers in helping their students improve their creative writing and communication skills, improve their skills in creative problem solving, and enlarge, enrich, and make more accurate their images of the future. Each unit begins with an overview of the activity, an explanation of the creative…

One way to engage students in grades 7 through 12 is to encourage them to investigate history as a puzzle, a set of dilemmas, a collection of conflicting viewpoints in short, a mysterious and provocative subject. In this book a collection of cases have been assembled both real mysteries and purposely constructed classroom problems with techniques…

Designed to help youngsters with real-world learning, and with being a smart consumer, this book focuses on having students participate in decisions facing consumers every day. The book contends that this is the best way to help students think critically and solve problems. Activities in the book require students to make consumer decisions related…

Describes a computer curriculum for 7- to 12-year-old children which is designed to integrate the computer into multiple subject areas and stimulate the development and sharpening of critical-thinking skills. The course is divided into eight conceptual units, each containing educational computer games or simulations and some related off-line…

Properties of the harmonic number triangle are listed, and ways of generating the elements of harmonic triangles are described. (MNS)

A sequence of activities is presented that has been used to explore powers of numbers and patterns with middle school students. Experiences with use of this sequence are noted. The material is designed to serve three instructional purposes, which are noted at the conclusion. (MP)

A series of lessons designed to promote problem-solving skills by encouraging students to write programs is presented. All samples of solutions are written in BASIC. (MP)

Problem-solving activities of one form or another are encouraged at all times, with problem-solving lessons recommended at least every 10 to 12 days throughout the year. A number of ways to carry out such a heavy schedule are outlined. (MP)

Bulletin boards are viewed as an integral part of the teaching-learning process. Examples of boards that encourage students to interact and learn are presented. Teachers are encouraged to try to set up some of their own favorite bulletin boards in this particular format. (MP)

Included are 13 enrichment activities for gifted elementary school students in the subjects of mathematics, classroom seating arrangements, logic, language arts, and science. (CJ)

Allowing students to use a polystyrene cutter to fashion their own three-dimensional models is suggested as a means of allowing individuals to experience problems and develop ideas related to solid geometry. A list of ideas that can lead to mathematical discovery is provided. (MP)

The use of the computer in problem solving situations is profiled. Sample lessons for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students are presented along with possible programs for a variety of computers using BASIC. (MP)

Ideas are presented for using candy M & M's as materials to teach mathematics. Six different activities are reviewed. (MP)

Activities designed to help pupils develop spatial abilities with cubes and right angles are presented. Instructions for manufacturing the special three-dimensional objects described are included. (MP)

Describes a series of learning activities built around number cubes. Sample activities introduce elementary properties of the cube, the magic rule of seven, and basic concepts related to graphs in the plane coordinate system. (PVD)