A game modelled on football can be used to provide students with practice in solving algebraic equations. (SD)

Beginning with a construction problem admitting a classical solution, the authors provide other solutions based on algorithmic estimation and transformational geometry. The latter methods are generalized to suggest solutions to other problems; hints to these solutions are provided. Teacher-student discussion could lead in many directions. (SD)

Adventure programs attempt to control or limit injuries in high-risk programming. This risk management has concentrated on the physical safety of participants at the expense of emotional and developmental security. In the zeal for accident-free statistics, a highly controlled, directive approach is created that treats individuals according to a…

This series of exercises is designed to provide undergraduate students with some experiences to deepen and clarify their understanding of the various approaches to personality. The exercises include the semantic differential, modeling, systematic desensitization, shaping, role construct repertory, free association, and approach-avoidance…

The New Harmony Utopian Society established in southwestern Indiana in 1815 set many precedents from a social and educational perspective. None were more dramatic nor more significant than its contribution to the field of vocational education. The criteria established by its founders for the New Harmony educational system included a practical…

Research investigating why learning to teach is difficult is considered, along with examples that illustrate the issues. A Stanford University study sought to understand difficulties in transforming knowledge to teaching. An example is that some literature classes teach social criticism as well as literature. Some novels also deal with typical…

Written to assist the teacher-sponsor responsible for operating a school store, this book offers a system developed specifically for the operation and control of such a store. It also shows ways in which a school store can be used for training students. Chapter 1 discusses a successful school store operated by students and a store record system…

A psychology course in which students are required to apply learned principles to their interpersonal experiences is the instructors answer to the need to make psychological principles and methods generally available for a wider impact on human existence. (JH)

How Australians experience a place such as the Murray River has been extensively shaped by our colonial heritage. Colonial notions of how the river ought to behave and be utilised have contributed to the transformation of the river physically, ecologically and culturally. Colonisation has also left behind an intellectual legacy in the way…

Several activities are described which give children experience with body measuring and estimating. Ratio and proportion and graphing are also involved. Samples of individual worksheets are provided as is a poster. (LS)

A course on game preparation attended by students from different disciplines involved an exposure to various types of games, leading up to individual and group development of games. Two of the games developed, Senate and Disarmament, described in the article, exemplify the benefit in hard deductive reasoning required by game preparation. (JH)

Making paper becomes a means for overcoming lack of money in a rural community: Students make money and gain scientific knowledge and practice learning skills by implementing paper-making technology. (JH)