The activities in this workbook are designed to provide pupils with practice in mastering the performance objectives of the Comprehensive Instructional Management System in mathematics for Level 3, Part 1, in New York City schools. It follows the sequence of the teacher's manual, with the objective number listed on each page. Over 80 performance…

The activities in this workbook are designed to provide pupils with practice in mastering the performance objectives of the Comprehensive Instructional Management System in mathematics for Level 3, Part 2, in New York City schools. It follows the sequence of the teacher's manual, with the objective number listed on each page. Over 80 performance…

This paper reports the process by which Anne Arundel County Public Schools evaluated its mathematics program. The steps are outlined by which the evaluation was initiated, designed, implemented, and reported. The procedures developed to address and implement the evaluation findings and recommendations are described. The evaluation was intitiated…

This workbook is designed as an easy-to-read, slower-paced mathematics text for students who have learning, reading, and language problems. Helping students fulfill mathematics requirements for graduation is a goal; the book can be used as the core or supplement to the mathematics curriculum in mainstreamed or special education classrooms, in…

This publication is designed to provide assistance to local school districts in Illinois in meeting two new requirements: (1) to submit objectives for student learning to the State Board of Education which meet or exceed the State Goals for Learning and (2) to identify local goals for excellence in education. School districts have the option to…

The major goal of the Comprehensive Instructional Management System (CIMS) for mathematics is to provide the classroom teacher in New York City with a well-structured, objective-based curriculum. This first part of the manual for Level 2 includes varied numbers of modules for 12 topics: numbers and numeration; addition of whole numbers;…

The major goal of the Comprehensive Instructional Management System (CIMS) for mathematics is to provide classroom teachers in New York City with a well-structured, objective-based curriculum. This second part of the manual for Level 2 includes modules for 12 topics: numbers and numeration; addition of whole numbers; subtraction of whole numbers;…

This document is part 1 of the workbook for kindergarten pupils in the Comprehensive Instructional Management System, a unified mathematics curriculum for kindergarten through grade 7. Each objective is developed by a variety of strategies, with mastery of objectives diagnosed through a testing component. The activities in the student workbook are…

This document is part 2 of the workbook for kindergarten pupils in the Comprehensive Instructional Management System, a unified mathematics curriculum for kindergarten through grade 7. Each objective is developed by a variety of strategies, with mastery of objectives diagnosed through a testing component. The activities in the student workbook are…

This document is part 1 of the workbook for grade 1 pupils in the Comprehensive Instructional Management System, a unified mathematics curriculum for kindergarten through grade 7. Each objective is developed by a variety of strategies, with mastery of objectives diagnosed through a testing component. The activities in the student workbook are…

This report discusses the role of affect in cognitive processing. The importance of affect in processing mathematical information is described in the context of solving arithmetic story problems. Some ideas are offered about the way affective responses to mathematical problem solving situations influence the development, maintenance, and retrieval…

The purpose of this teaching unit is to approach elementary probability problems in three ways. First, actual trials are performed and results are recorded. Second, a simple computer simulation of the problem provided on diskette and written for Apple IIe and IIc computers, is run several times. Finally, the mathematical solution of the problem is…

During the 1985 session of the Louisiana legislature, House Concurrent Resolution No. 110 was passed requiring that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study the possibility of instituting a state-wide multiple-curriculum system in Louisiana's public schools. Tasks of the resulting 19-member curriculum committee focused on a…

This analysis of 44 research studies concerned with word problems contains: (1) a brief overview; (2) 44 major findings and conclusions; (3) 64 suggestions and questions for further research; and (4) a reference list. The author suggests that the experimental research of the 1980s seemed to focus on the children, the instruction, and the word…

This document contains detailed directions for constructing a device that mechanically produces the three-dimensional shape resulting from the rotation of any algebraic line or curve around either axis on the coordinate plant. The device was developed in response to student difficulty in visualizing, and thus grasping the mathematical principles…