Contrasts learning activities designed to achieve teacher planned objectives and learning activities which permit and encourage pupils to find their own objectives. Objective-seeking activities are discussed in detail and criteria for activity assessment are suggested. (MS)

One activity concerned with describing data about students in the class and a second activity based on students' original story problems are discussed. (DT)

Four worksheets are provided for giving students experience with addition facts, subtraction facts, multiplication facts, and with building equations involving more than one operation. (DT)

Graphical representations of modular arithmetic multiplication tables and of equations in modular systems are investigated. (DT)

A paper staircase drawn on a grid forms the basis for a discovery lesson in algebra. (DT)

Short units for general mathematics students are described; sample worksheets are included. (DT)

A learning activity to help students recognize the values which influence their decisions regarding foods is presented. Students establish priorities for the values of tradition, taste, cost, convenience, and nutrition in relation to choosing foods for various social situations and then participate in discussion. (MS)

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Five rules for teaching the metric system are presented, and five measurement activities which can be adapted for elementary or secondary students are described. (DT)

General suggestions for introducing the metric system, followed by descriptions of several activities for measuring length, volume, and mass are given. (DT)

Rocket, a computer simulation program of a model rocket's flight performance written in BASIC to run on a Wang 220-B is detailed. The critical portion of the program is presented. (BT)

Practical, relevant ideas developed by practicing teachers including photography, environmental instrumentation, digital display units, and the planning of practical investigations, are presented. (BT)