Activities involving estimation of the number of objects in a configuration can motivate students to consider parametric models. (SD)

The place of binary arithmetic in the curriculum is discussed, then uses of binary coding for methods of automatic error correction in computers and calculators are analyzed. (DT)

Determining the day of the week on which Christmas falls each year is explained. (DT)

A method is explained for using the calculator to determine the day of the week on which any given date falls. (DT)

A sequence of activities leading to the concept of Pi is suggested. (DT)

This article discusses the use of the balance beam in developing concepts of equality and inequality and in showing the basic arithmetic operations. (DT)

A card game is described which gives students practice with adding integers and which also develops the concept of "opposite." (DT)

The rationale for teaching different number bases is discussed, and an approach for teaching the base 4 system is suggested. (DT)

Six mathematics problems are posed; details are given of the solutions for six other problems. (DT)

This is a book about teaching maths to pupils with learning differences, not learning difficulties. Teaching and learning in schools is, and always has been, print based. Other ways of thinking--visual, kinaesthetic, practical--are discounted in the classroom. To become teachers, students must jump over a long series of hurdles, formal and…

This book provides dozens of carefully prepared letters for parents in English and Spanish that teachers can send home weekly. Each of the 40 letters focuses on direct and easy-to-implement mathematics activities that can be incorporated regularly into a family's daily routine without turning the home into a school away from school. The letters…

This book explores how primary school children with dyslexia or dyspraxia and difficulty in math can learn math and provides practical support and detailed teaching suggestions. It considers cognitive features that underlie difficulty with mathematics generally or with specific aspects of mathematics. It outlines the ways in which children usually…

This book contains a set of versatile enrichment exercises that cover a very broad range of mathematical topics and applications in algebra from the Moebius strip to the googol. Several criteria have been used in developing the activities and selecting the topics that are included. All of them bear heavily and equally on concerns for curriculum…