This book features a guide to teaching mathematics more effectively. Examining the different ways students acquire mathematical skills, it helps teachers develop flexible teaching methods that suit these varied ways of learning. Common areas of learning difficulty in mathematics and why students fail, ways for teachers to determine gaps in…

Describes problems encountered in teaching of heat at secondary level as stemming from the fact that the word heat is used to imply two ideas: energy and interactions. Suggests some necessary measures for a teacher to avoid confusion in heat teaching. (CC)

Beginning portion of the article; conclusion to appear in a later issue. (VM)

In a speech presented before the 45th annual meeting of the American School Health Association, Chicago, 1971, the author speculates about the new role school physicians will play in the area of learning problems. (Author)

Prescriptive assignments of an appropriate achievement level during math period resulted in increased attending during math period and slight increases in completion of all academic assignments. (Results were) maintained even after experimental procedures were withdrawn. (Author)

It was not known what recommendations were being offered by school psychologists to the teachers and parents of handicapped children. The investigator completed a survey and received 3,700 psycho-educational recommendations to aid such children. The concepts were classified, edited, and compiled into a manual for trainees and experienced…

Performance in cognitive tasks involves two distinct processes; acquisition of knowledge and cognitive control over knowledge already acquired. A conceptual and analytic framework is presented which allows for the disentanglement of knowledge and control, and for the quantification of each. (Author)

A family doll placement technique was used to study separateness and connectedness within the family as this varies over positive and negative emotional themes. As hypothesized, positive emotional themes were represented by closer doll placements than negative themes. Emotions were also characterized by using certain kinds of groupings and…

An examination of some of the assumptions and consequences of the educational application of the above terms to the child who is not making it." (JB)

Assigning an organic central nervous system disorder as the cause of most learning problems ignores the consideration of other factors such as emotional, intellectual or educational lacks. (A related article is EA 501 451.) (Author)

The author expresses his belief that language learning opportunities should be offered to all levels of ability and discusses the development of strategies to meet the problems which the less-able child may encounter in untracked, mixed-ability language classes. (FB)

Reports the development and testing of a practical instrument, the Self-Description Questionnaire, that can be used by teachers to identify the psychosocial factors contributing to learning problems experienced by low literate adults. Provides examples of how teachers can use the framework and data obtained from the instrument. Includes the…

Followup of psychoeducational recommendations made for 67 learning problem students (k-12) showed that 68 percent of the parental recommendations and 56 percent of the teacher recommendations were implemented. Findings included that many school personnel had not read the recommendations and there was no effective ongoing advocate for the student.…