The purpose of the study was to observe the extent to which preschool children's actions were guided by private speech utterances in free play and puzzle solving conditions. A second purpose was to examine how the structure of private speech utterances varied according to the context in which they were uttered. Fifteen preschoolers were videotaped…

SUCH MATHEMATICAL GAMES AS DOMINOES FOR PRIMARY NUMBER RECOGNITION AND AS MILK BOTTLE TOPS FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION ARE LISTED. A LIST OF SEVERAL MATH PROBLEMS, PUZZLES AND BRAIN TEASERS FOLLOW. QUIET GAMES OF PAPER CUTTING AND CROSS WORD PUZZLES FOR MATH VOCABULARY ARE INCLUDED. THE NEXT SECTION OF GAMES CONCERNS LANGUAGE. THESE INCLUDE…

This booklet of mathematical and scientific puzzles and games is designed to encourage the reader, interested in a science or mathematical career, to gain further information from knowledgeable people in his community, to read from a variety of sources, and to write to Scientific Manpower Corporation for its publication, "SEARCH: Science,…

Several bicentennial games and puzzles, all using the number 1776, are described. (SD)

Activities described for using zucchini to teach measurement include: guessing, graphing, and measuring length and weight; comparing sizes and shapes; and puzzles. (MP)

Directions are given for preparing a puzzle that may be used to provide practice in computation. (MP)

Discusses some theorems and properties of figures produced when circles are tangent to one another. (GA)

This collection of palindromes, pangrams, acrostics, word squares and word ladders, visual and numerical puzzles, silly names, and much more is designed to delight, surprise, and challenge both the novice and the expert player of word games. It uses the metaphor of a busy, cosmopolitan city to showcase three facets of words: forms of letters,…

Four mathematical puzzles or games appropriate for secondary students are described. (MK)

Results of a study of 38 preschool children observed and videotaped during performance on a jigsaw-puzzle task indicate that puzzle solutions accompanied by a high rate of verbalizations were judged as more proficient, solved with a high rate of puzzle-solving moves, and completed in a shorter period of time. (Author/RH)

Examines the history of word games, their various forms, and analyzes their comic nature as a breakdown of normal communication processes. (AM)

Presents a crossword puzzle designed to familiarize students with Greek and Latin rhetorical terminology. Leads students to determine the rhetorical concept associated with each Latin term used as a clue; to discover the appropriate Greek term associated with each rhetorical concept; and to write each Greek term in Greek characters. (JMF)

Five graded sets of examples of alphametrics are provided. The puzzles are suggested for use in developing the traits of considering all possibilities and systematic working. (MP)