Identifying the larger (L), smaller (S) and difference (D) of two real numbers, and then selecting the appropriate relationship between L, D, and S can help students solve algebra word problems. (SD)

Examines curriculum and assessment policy in Australian vocational education and training, enacted through demand-side market-oriented policies since the 1990s. In contrast to this rational, positivist, and managerial approach, advocates an alternative coherentist view that favors pragmatic, problem-solving approaches to curriculum and assessment…

Suggestions are provided for activities involving the construction of mathematical models to solve "real-life" problems. (SD)

This is unit eleven of a fifteen-unit SMSG secondary school text for high school students. The text is devoted almost entirely to mathematical concepts which all citizens should know in order to function satisfactorily in our society. Chapter topics include coordinate geometry and problem analysis. (MP)

Students were presented with the problem of finding all magic squares of order three. (SD)

The famous birthday problem is discussed and activities which can be used with it as an introduction to probability are examined. (SD)

Suggests that students could easily apply knowledge and skills acquired in biology instruction to other disciplines if that instruction had been integrated with other disciplines. (LS)

After arguing that secondary students are often inept at solving word problems, and that this may be caused by their disinterest in the problems typically presented, the author presents eleven problems she considers to be more relevant to student interests. (SD)

Arguing that operations research is not as difficult and forbidding as its reputation implies, and that many problems lend themselves to analysis using common sense, the author provides examples which might be used in a secondary school classroom. (SD)

The teaching of non-numerical flow charting to all pupils is advocated as a means of preparing students for decision making. Several sample problems are provided. (SD)

Tables of life expectancy can provide data for use in a great variety of problems related to probability theory. (SD)

Beginning with an analysis of the golden rectangle, the author shows how a series of problems for student investigation arise from queries concerning changes in conditions and analogous situations. (SD)

The relationships between arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means and the root mean square of two numbers are examined. The problem of generalizing these relationships to three variables is discussed. (SD)

A problem solving approach to the teaching of the Pythagorean Theorem is described. (SD)

Suggests that schools include technology in the curriculum; the emphasis should be on the analysis of real problems. (LS)