An activity project is described which encourages students to question and experiment. Appendices provide examples of student results. (MNS)

Describes the Taffs Pit simulation game, which sets up a meeting between acting and production staff within an invented soap opera program with students role playing and critically observing, and then links to general themes of communication analysis. The simulation's design, role playing, and criticisms of the game are discussed. (MBR)

The use of trial-and-error strategies to solve problems is endorsed. Types of problems with which trial and error is effective are discussed, with examples of how it is used, and teaching considerations are briefly considered. A computer program for one problem is included. (MNS)

The author discusses a film which demonstrates the problem-solving approach to learning in practice; he takes the theory further, suggesting that the intellectual process underlying discovery learning--whether concerned with practical skills or literary criticism--is the capacity of adults to choose between alternatives. (Author/AJ)

Outlines a guided discovery activity for ascertaining the conditions which allow for the correct tracing of networks. (JP)

Finding patterns in the relationship between the number of sides in a polygon and the total number of diagonals is used as vehicle to discuss discovery learning. (DT)

Discusses how to teach literature so that the student will most successfully retain and assimilate the information developed in the work. (RB)

The three teaching methods are not only compared, but predictors for matching students with techniques are investigated. (DG)

An outline model of a student-presented mathematics club program on non-Euclidean geometries is discussed. The suggested instructor approach is to assign four students to research and collectively present this material to club members. (MP)

Shows how all primitive Pythagorean triples can be generated from harmonic sequences. Use inductive and deductive reasoning to explore how Pythagorean triples are connected with another area of mathematics. (KHR)

Describes computation of a continued radical to approximate the golden ratio and presents two well-known geometric interpretations of it. Uses guided-discovery to investigate different repeated radicals to see what values they approximate, the golden-rectangle interpretation of these continued radicals, and the golden-section interpretation. (KHR)