These are some of the individual materials needed by students using the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program for the Intermediate Grades, Part VI. The book of "Worksheets" contains materials that are labeled with the same letter and number as the lessons with which they are to be used. The six "Collage of Problems" booklets…

Presented is a collection of very brief chapters (or sections) drawn from a variety of sources which discuss the characteristics of the disadvantaged learner. In addition, suggestions for teaching mathematics to the disadvantaged using a laboratory approach are made. Conclusions include a description of the attributes necessary to be an effective…

The mathematics education goals for Montgomery County Public Schools are listed in this public policy statement. The basic skills in mathematics that the school system wants each child to attain are the ability to perform computations, solve common problems of mathematics and logic, and understand the structure of mathematics so it can be a useful…

The mathematics education goals for Montgomery County Public Schools are listed in this public policy statement. This is the second of two booklets describing the entire school system's mathematics program, and grades nine through twelve are focused upon. The basic skills in mathematics that the school system wants each child to attain are the…

Curricular analyses, written by experienced teachers and experts, of the 1978 Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) results, and teacher expectations regarding mathematics are presented. A random sample of 7,200 Illinois students within 360 schools (grades 4, 8, 11) were tested; results reflected their educational performance on the…

This mathematics textbook, developed for use with slow learners and learning disabled students in secondary school, contains 17 chapters. Among the topics covered are: number words; place value; rounding whole numbers; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers; reducing fractions; mixed numbers; lowest common…

This module was not meant to make handwriting analysts of students, but to make them aware that mathematics is used in analyzing handwriting. Activities revolve around ratio, mean, mode, measurement and some graphing. Sample spaces are explored and used to gain insight into how people write habitually. (Author/MK)

CHARACTERISTICS OF PUPILS IN POVERTY AREAS INCLUDE LOW ACHIEVEMENT, UNPREDICTABLE AND UNORGANIZED BEHAVIOR, AND LITTLE PARENT MOTIVATION. THE POVERTY CHILD NEEDS TO HAVE HIS MATHEMATICAL POTENTIAL DEVELOPED TO COPE WITH A SCIENTIFIC WORLD. THE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS STUDY GROUP FURNISHES EXPERIENCE AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF MIDDLE GROUP…

This is one of a series of student booklets designed for use in a bilingual mathematics program in grades 6-8. The general format is to present each page in both Spanish and English. The mathematical topics in this booklet include measurement, perimeter, and area. (MK)

This study's major purpose was to identify school-related variables that affect the achievement of eighth-grade pupils in mathematics. The data are based on results of a basic skills test administered statewide in Tennessee. The main problem of the first phase of the research was to identify factors that may account for relatively large…

This report contains a collection of papers on the status of the use of calculators in the schools of 16 countries. Each report summarizes trends and prevailing opinions about curricular implications of calculators; research activities; instructional practices; student attitudes; in-service activities; and general background on amount and type of…

Parts one and two of a one-year computer-oriented calculus course (without analytic geometry) are presented. The ideas of calculus are introduced and motivated through computer (i.e., algorithmic) concepts. An introduction to computing via algorithms and a simple flow chart language allows the book to be self-contained, except that material on…

In the early 1970's, a major modification of the introductory service course in statistics at Brigham Young University was implemented, first on an experimental basis and then in all sections by 1974-75. The basic components of the course that distinguish it are: a self-pacing text prepared under the guidance of educational research specialists; a…

This guide represents the final experimental version of a pilot project which was conducted in the United States between 1973 and 1976. The ideas and the manner of presentation are based on the works of Georges and Frederique Papy. They are recognized for having introduced colored arrow drawings ("papygrams") and models of our numeration…

This report brings together in a single source observations and materials of instructional importance in calculator explorations with seventh-grade students from 1976 through 1978. Students used algebraic-logic calculators with no operational hierarchies. At the end of the school year, students were introduced to reverse Polish notation-based…