Describes the efforts of Sesame Street to reach the "information-deprived" child. (GB)

Article considered simulation as a method for bringing relevance to the curriculum and sparking student's interests in their education. (RK)

Two special classes, each containing eight educable mentally retarded students, 9 and 10 years of age, respectively, played a group discussion game twice a week for 3 consecutive weeks in which the teachers presented a discussion topic and reinforced specified good discussion behaviors with high points. (MC)

Presented are several variations of a multiplication game which develops probability and statistical concepts while it reinforces students' arithmetic skills. (JP)

An argument for simulation games in elementary education, instructional problems related to homemade adapted, and prepackaged games, research results on gaming with 8-year-olds, simulation games for middle schools, and an annotated bibliography on published simulation games offer answers to most questions on simulation games. (KM)

Describes special techniques, useful for offsetting a defensive cover up of feelings, through which latency-age children can learn to communicate and verbalize problems. (Author/RK)

A sixty-four-item parent-report Games Inventory was constructed to measure play patterns in normal and gender-deviant boys. (Editor)

An alternative approach to reading can be based on a Piagetian process called decentering''--getting outside one's own frame of reference, the immediate circumstances of here and now, and one's immediate visceral reaction. (MM)

Thirty-two outstanding teachers tell their get-acquainted ideas for the first week of school, and give helpful first of the year activities. (Editor/GB)

The problem today is not preparation of teaching methods and materials, but the intelligent selection'' of effective methods and appropriate materials for each learning situation. (Editor)

Topics covered include matrices and the Fibonacci sequence, number patterns, groups, geometric arrangement of objects, games involving moving on a network, equivalent equations, and factoring. (DT)

An abbreviated form of a game which provokes students into thoughtful examination of significant human values is presented. A description of the game model is given along with goals and steps for playing it. Instructions for determination of the winners and debriefing procedures are provided. (SM)

Details the present and projected utilization of computers in the educational process to show what a particular school of business is doing to upgrade its computer-related program. (Authors)

Twenty groups of 9-11 year old boys and girls from an Arab village played a game which required interaction among them to obtain prizes. Boys were more cooperative than girls. (DM)