Describes the "Bag Game," an activity which keeps kindergartners or first graders absorbed and entertained while heightening their awareness of initial consonant phonemes in spoken words. (SR)

Describes an author's card game that celebrates authors and children's literature, in which students choose the authors and construct cards containing titles and simple illustrations. (SR)

Learning names is vital to the enjoyment and productivity of a group. Presents four games to help campers learn each others' names. Sidebar presents three additional teambuilding activities and ice breakers. (TD)

The Color Coordinating Team Exercise is a learning activity that builds on theoretical discussion of power, influence, authority, and responsibility. It is designed to address issues of power sharing and to develop skills for promoting inclusiveness in organizations. (SK)

Presents a game designed to help middle school students think about geometric properties and the relationships among them. (ASK)

A tower-building exercise originally intended to illustrate how to direct subordinates was redesigned to reflect contemporary organizational structures. It helps participants examine the issue of who really leads in nonhierarchical, self-managed teams. (JOW)

Presents a case study of the experiences of six girls with the "Phoenix Quest" (PQ) computer game and compares the responses of 41 boys and 57 girls to the same game. PQ was designed to explore language and mathematics in ways appealing to girls. Celebrating and challenging a female protagonist was important to girls. (SLD)

Some of the most provocative problems in mathematics concern logical paradoxes. Provides a series of paradoxes for students to consider. (CCM)

Many important human activities involve accomplishing goals without a script. There is no formula for true problem-solving. Heuristic, cognitive "rules of thumb" are the problem-solver's best guide. Learners should understand heuristic tools such as means-end analysis, working backwards, successive approximation, and external representation. Since…

Provides special instructions for "The Wonderful World of Time," a Macintosh tutorial developed by gifted sixth graders in the Keppel Union School District in California for grade 1 students learning how to tell time on analog clocks. The game won the HyperSIG's software development contest and was displayed at the National Educational…

Discusses the use of games and toys in teaching fractions, independent thinking, and organizational skills to elementary students. Explains the basis of the method in a constructivist approach. (JOW)

Presents a subtle version of a tangram puzzle in which students must put pieces in the right places to make the required design. (ASK)

A series of evaluations of total enterprise simulation in business capstone courses found no direct positive relationship between performance in the management game and learning outcomes. Ability to play the game did not correlate to learning. (SK)

Discusses the role of play in the elementary mathematics curriculum. Demonstrates that well planned play can add rigor to the second grade mathematics curriculum. (ASK)

In an attempt to quantify the extent of home video game playing in a typical population of 11- to 16-year olds (n=816), it was found that 77.2% played video games. The most common pattern of play was daily, with most playing half an hour to an hour. A small population of players was identified whose behavior might be considered addictive. (JPS)