This article is a first-hand account of how providing five groups of children with a puzzle helped break down the first-week barriers of school, teach cooperation, and foster discovery. (Editors/JA)

During the two stages of the investigation (1964-66), observations of children in freely formed playgroups were conducted in 27 Israeli schools, Jewish and Arab. The cumulative record of play participants throughout the complete period amounted to over 120,000 units. Among the variables recoreded with reference to each play group were its size,…

Educational games have received increasing attention as one teaching technique for individualizing instruction. The use of games for education was borrowed from the business community, which in turn had borrowed the idea from the military. Educational games include several distinct types--simulations, role playing, games and simulation games. Two…

How games were used in colonial America for both learning and amusement. (HB)

The article discusses optimal strategies in tie point options in badminton and international squash. (MB)

A rationale for involving gifted children in the game of chess is presented (e.g., inexpensive equipment, ease of using introductory games to teach the moves, the aesthetic and mathematical satisfactions to be derived, scope for creativity, and development of thinking processes). (DB)

Before buying a commercially produced reading kit, it is necessary to explore the following questions: What is good? What is Bad? and Is any commercial kit a total program? (JH)

Platform tennis, a smaller, more convenient, faster-paced version of tennis, is now a major recreational activity in the midwest and northern parts of the country. (Author)

The various types of games are defined and characterized, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages provides a valuable guide to using games successfully. A comprehensive listing of science-related games follows the review. (Author)

Experiences in using a management simulation exercise developed for collegiate use and employed as part of corporate long range planning education and development are discussed.

A consideration of simulation/gaming research, problems, theoretical criticism, and markets, with a view to predicting future developments. (LS)

A game which deals with the design of instructional games. The player tries to predict the average attitude of the group toward instructional simulation games. The game allows the generation and verification of a number of hypotheses. (Author/LS)

Kurt Squire knew something unusual was happening in his after-school Western civ program. His normally lackluster middle and high school students, who'd failed the course once already, were coming to class armed with strategies to topple colonial dictators. Heated debates were erupting over the impact of germs on national economies. Kids who…