Describes a full-year course called Applied Mathematics. The course covers topics in two general categories, namely, personal money management and job-related mathematics. General instructional strategies used and a sample student project (on budgets) are included. (JN)

Each teacher has developed a set of beliefs about how to teach mathematics. The sources of these beliefs are discussed, in sections on the nature of teaching, the role of the mathematics teacher, teacher decision making, teacher decision making and knowledge of mathematics, and the teacher as an elementary mathematician. (MNS)

Instruction in flexible groups at the Center School accommodates variability in student achievement and aptitude, increases time targeted to specific needs, addresses fairly large groups, reduces the problems of individualized instructional systems, and offers curricular units sequenced according to a hierarchy of skills and concepts, with…

Addresses from two perspectives the problem of providing opportunities for all students to gain knowledge and skills required to use microcomputers: appropriate microcomputer use in the classroom and curriculum, and its role as an indicator of the nature of public education, a catalyst for educational reform, and an equalizer. (MBR)

Gifted students attending a week's summer mathematics program completed problems involving elementary number theory ideas and extensions. The sequence of these problems and strategies used are presented to help teachers looking for topics to enrich the mathematical experiences of students in middle grades or older. (JN)

This discussion of achievement tests examines the relationship between curriculum and nationally standardized test scores. The mathematics curriculum and achievement scores of second through eighth grade children in a suburban community are presented as an example of the discrepancy in emphasis that may exist between curriculum and achievement…

This study investigates a linking of the 1991 International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP) and the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessments. Data to allow such a linking were collected in 1992 from students in the United States who were administered both instruments. Modeling was done using a…

This paper addresses the challenges and strategies of evaluating curricular reforms in secondary schools by presenting a case study of the College Board's Pacesetter Math course, a fourth level course that was entering its third year in 1995-96. The Pacesetter math course is intended to be an alternative to more traditional pre-calculus courses,…

This document consists of the two issues of the "AMATYC Review" published during volume year 1997-1998. Designed as an avenue of communication for mathematics educators concerned with the views, ideas, and experiences of two-year college students and teachers, this journal contains articles on mathematics exposition and education, and regularly…

This paper focuses on some main distinctions that are necessary to analyze mathematical knowledge from a learning point of view and explain how many students come up against difficulties at each level of the curriculum. From a learning point of view, visualization cannot be used as an immediate and obvious support for understanding, even though it…

This article describes teacher change using the backdrop of a standards-based reform mathematics curriculum for middle grades and direct quotes from teachers and math support coordinators involved in the implementation over the last five years. Each of the sixteen participants had at least one year of experience teaching or supervising the…

This study focuses on one district that recently began offering high school students a choice between its traditional algebra sequence and a new, integrated sequence based on Core Plus texts. The students in this district have experienced problem-centered instruction throughout elementary and middle school. However, when 600 students and their…

This digest features a review of learning styles research with a focus on the Dunn model of learning styles which delineates five types of stimuli: (1) environmental; (2) emotional; (3) sociological; (4) physical; and (5) psychological. Issues related to practical applications of the Dunn model to mathematics and science education, learning…

Relational thinking is suggested as a major goal of elementary mathematics education and some problems purporting to induce relational thinking are suggested. (CS)

A discussion of student-generated hierarchies developed for a mathematics objective by several small groups and validated on a second group. About 40 percent of the student-generated hierarchies were validated indicating that student input can be obtained to produce useful learning hierarchies. (Author)